what's worse when it comes to cheating? sex on the side or forming an emotional attachment to someone else?

Question

in my psych. class, i have to make up an experiment. it'd help a bunch if i can get input from both males and females...please?? answer once for both scenarios...thanks!

SCENARIO 1
think of a serious, committed, romantic relationship, past, present, or future. now imagine that your significant other became interested in someone else. what would upset you more??

[A] IMAGINING YOUR PARTNER FORMING A DEEP EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO THAT PERSON

[B] IMAGINING YOUR PARTNER ENJOYING PASSIONATE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH THAT OTHER PERSON


SCENARIO 2
think of a serious, committed, romantic relationship, past, present, or future. now imagine that your significant other became interested in someone else. what would upset you more??

[A] IMAGINING YOUR PARTNER TRYING DIFFERENT SEXUAL POSITIONS WITH THAT OTHER PERSON

[B] IMAGINING YOUR PARTNER FALLING IN LOVE WITH THAT OTHER PERSON

Answer 1

Scenario 1--
A-- would hurt worse. Sex is sex. Anyone can have sex with anyone, you dont have to love someone to have sex, as sick as it is, its the truth. People meet up everyday just for sex, the internet, bars..etc. But If my partner became emotionally attached, that is when I would be devestated..because that means feelings, which turn into love.
You can take two complete strangers, who could never fall in love and they could have good passionate sex. But if the emotional feelings arent there, then they are not there.

B--Of course, works along with the first one, an emotional attachment is far more damaging, that is when a relationship would be over, when your partner is attached to someone else, and is in love.
People have sex all the time, different positions...if there are no feelings there, then it would be easier to deal with, it would be hard, but not impossible.

Answer 2

I'm with double d on this :Scenario 1. A. Scenario 2. B. However, you can only do the sex thing so long with the same person without forming a deep emotional attachement.

Answer 3

Scenario 1: A - as to have a deep emotional attachment means that the partner will loose his/her feeling toward the previous and will surely end into a break of the couple

Scenario 2: B - If the partner falls in love with another one again it means that will loose him/her as love cannot be divided or share among three as true love has to be shared among two people only,

Answer 4

Both. When your partner develops emotional attachment or begin to fall in love to that person, they are no longer feeling the same way they once felt about you. It doesn't matter about the different sexual positions. Cheating is still cheating. If you feel you no longer want to be with that person, just let them go. Un fortunately, everyone don't see this a problem.

Answer 5

i think that for that i would be more upset by my partner forming an emotional attachment to another person then just having sex with them. and in the second scenario my partner falling in love with another person would be more upseting.

anytime something goes beyond just sex its more hurtful than if it were just sex.

Answer 6

scenario 1 its a and scenario 2 its b its worse if theres no connection with that person sex is just getting off but having a conecion is worse sex doesnt ahve to mean anything but feeling s do

Answer 7

as much as i've got faith inflexible and unfair asserting this, i won't settle for my companion having a good emotional bond with somebody else. This got here approximately in my final relationship and that i hated it. It felt like somebody had ripped my coronary heart out - it truly is cheating to me and it will continuously be cheating. in case you bond with somebody (or a minimum of in case you bond with me or somebody like me, lol), in case you opt for for them to be your mate, you do no longer form the top comparable kind of bond with somebody else, save your self from having intercourse with them and faux which you're no longer cheating. No, no, no. i certainly think of that often people who try this are kidding themselves and in certainty in basic terms desire a deep relationship with 2 people and don't techniques in easy terms having intercourse with one in each of them in the intervening time. i do no longer placed too plenty emphasis on intercourse in a relationship, so any kind of emotional cheating potential each little thing to me. A companion having good friends and so on is healthful, yet as quickly as various of of those 'friendships' escalates right into a good emotional bond that truly equals the bond of your love relationship, some thing isn't proper. there is likewise the severe possibility that a individual forming an good emotional bond with somebody different than their companion is in basic terms no longer having intercourse with them because of the fact they're 'in a relationship', and if that relationship ends, on comes the intercourse (which, in my case, is precisely what got here approximately). If i develop into legally married to this individual my opinion could in all risk in easy terms be intensified. i'm open a pair of lot of issues yet while it comprises this i won't stand it. and there is an possibility i'll finally finally end up on my own continuously because of the fact of it. i comprehend this, yet i comprehend i ought to have difficulty ever accepting something decrease than each little thing while it comprises actual love. Venus in Aries, lady Venus conjunct Jupiter, sextile Chiron, trine Ascendant, sq. Neptune (stunned?)

Answer 8

Scenario 1
A

Scenario 2
B

Answer 9

a and b