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Emotional Affairs

1) Emotional affairs involve developing a close personal relationship with someone other than your spouse through sharing intimate thoughts and feelings. This can weaken the intimacy within a marriage. 2) Signs of an emotional affair include concealing the extent of the relationship from a spouse and feeling "special" with the other person rather than with one's own spouse. 3) While having friends of the opposite sex is normal, emotional affairs differ in that the cheater often senses their behavior is wrong by communicating intimately with someone outside the marriage.

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Emotional Affairs

1) Emotional affairs involve developing a close personal relationship with someone other than your spouse through sharing intimate thoughts and feelings. This can weaken the intimacy within a marriage. 2) Signs of an emotional affair include concealing the extent of the relationship from a spouse and feeling "special" with the other person rather than with one's own spouse. 3) While having friends of the opposite sex is normal, emotional affairs differ in that the cheater often senses their behavior is wrong by communicating intimately with someone outside the marriage.

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It¶s not easy to define what a close, intimate connection with someone outside of the marriage is
called. What if it isn¶t necessarily a physical relationship? What if your significant other is
bonding closely with someone else and investing their emotional energy in that person? Is it still
an extra-marital relationship? How does it relate to the state of your marriage? What are

    ?

If your husband or wife has an ongoing deeply personal relationship with someone other than
you and it has a certain degree of intensity, the relationship has probably become an emotional
affair. Emotional affairs are considered extra-marital relationships, and surviving emotional
affairs is no less of a challenge than pulling a marriage through a physical affair.


 



  

Emotional affairs are justly named, as sharing your innermost thoughts with someone other than
your partner means you are developing an emotional connection with them. When a husband or
wife seeks this type of fulfillment outside of the marriage, the intimacy that rightly belongs in the
marriage becomes weakened, and the marriage itself is jeopardized. Yet, how are emotional
affairs truly defined in terms of actions and feelings? To help discern whether your spouse is
involved in emotional cheating, consider the following:

2p Is the extent of the relationship concealed from you, or is it transparent?


2p ëoes your spouse feel ³special´ with the other person but not with you?

Usually, if you call your spouse on emotionally cheating, the response is to argue, ³What¶s
wrong with having a friend of the opposite sex?´ It is a good argument, though where is the line
between a friend and something else?

One thing that separates 


     from friendships is that in most cases the cheater can
feel that the behavior is somehow not right. It usually feels wrong to communicate with
someone outside the marriage on such an intimate level, and that is the main reason for
concealing the truth. When pushed, a spouse on the attack may accuse you of unfairness and
defend the right to have a best friend of the opposite sex.


  
 
 
With today¶s technology, it is easier than ever to communicate and to check up on the
communication of others. When you discover that your husband or wife has developed a close
bond with someone else and the relationship seems to have become more intimate than a
friendship or a working relationship, you may experience a range of reactions:

2p uuilt: You may feel as if you¶ve broken your partner¶s trust by crossing a line of privacy
and ³snooping´ into a personal account.
2p cadness: Your husband or wife is sharing a close connection with someone other than
you.
2p ÷nger: Your partner is investing effort into another relationship when it¶s your own
marriage that needs work.
2p Œeglect: It can highlight the fact that you and your partner no longer share intimate
details, only trivialities such as what the kids did or what to put on the grocery list.
2p ëefensive: You may shut down or become protective because your partner has pounced
on you for going through his or her ³private business.´

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