2006-06-26 17:06:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Thanks for all your good answers. A friend of mine told me their spouse was having an emotional affair. I can appreciate the difference between emotional and physical cheating...I was just curious where other people considered the lines to be drawn. Thanks for your input!
2006-06-26 17:21:12 · update #1
An emotional affair; how would that be defined? Someone, say a woman, has a crush on a man at work, talks with him on breaks, really admires him, daydreams about him, even thinks about leaving her husband for him. Is that an emotional affair? If it is, and it could just as well be the man having it, then it is a dangerous thing. It's best not to get involved even in such an emotional affair. I think they can lead to real affairs, which can wreck marriages. I've had an emotional affair lately, and I tell you if I'd the chance I would have been gone and into the arms of that woman. Thankfully, I guess, she broke it off.
2006-06-26 17:55:49 · answer #1 · answered by Nightwriter21 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all it depends if you are physically cheating. If you have any type of physical intimacy or physical interaction than it is physical cheating. However if you are emotionally involved and there is a strong bond between you I would say that you are engaged in an emotional affair. Either way, you are having an affair and depending on the circumstances are cheating. From experience I would say your mostly cheating yourself.
2006-06-26 17:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by LyndeKC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask yourself...would you do it with your spouse in the same room? And how would you feel if your spouse was doing it?
Makes it pretty plain. Going outside the relationship for emotional or physical validation is cheating and never helps.
2006-06-26 17:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by ShellRe' 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the same situation...nothing physical, but have proof of the other. Hurts the same. Cheating is cheating, thats not to say it can't be worked out but it will take time and alot of help.
2006-06-26 17:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an emotional affair is when you develop feelings, attractions, fantasies for a person. you may flirt with the person, throw sxual hints and signs but you have never been involved with the person on an intimate level never kisses the person... that's an emotional affair...
2006-06-26 17:10:36 · answer #5 · answered by The Thinker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ow... It hurts more than a physical affair.
2006-06-26 17:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know the answer, otherwise you wont be able to distinguished the difference. You are selling yourself short by doing so. Just DON'T do it., not worth the price.
2006-06-26 17:21:22 · answer #7 · answered by frustration 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, cheating is cheating. If you're causing someone to give you their heart when it belongs to someone else, how is that any different that giving your body?
Hope that helps!
Aloha!
2006-06-26 17:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by gabriel_demus 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By loving someone else more than you love the person that you are with.
2006-06-26 17:09:53 · answer #9 · answered by BabyFirefly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cheating is cheating. Doesn't matter what you call it.
2006-06-26 17:09:32 · answer #10 · answered by revoltix 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋