i am not sure I understand the term. Is it just as bad?
2006-10-29 02:27:13 · 11 answers · asked by Red 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Emotional cheating, is just a term men try to force on women. A hypothetical, when your thoughts are written on your face.
2006-10-29 02:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by ~Jessica~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red, emotional cheating is where you are having an affair that is not physical. Some people disagree that this any type of cheating. Cheating is simply put---it's anything you don't want your spouse or partner to know about. Something that you are uncomfortable them knowing about, or something that you know that is either going to get them mad or hurt their feelings.
Affairs have taken a new road, because of the computers. Your everyday people are on the computers pretending to be other people. Married people are having "fun" going on line and talking to the opposite sex, and having sexual conversations. This is an emotional affair. Sometimes, it also just someone who is giving their thoughts, concerns, hopes, and wishes to another person. You are giving part of yourself to another who isn't the one you should be sharing with. Emotional affairs can honestly hurt more than a physical one night stand. They are usually more intense, and intimate.
Emotional cheating is a new term to describe another way that someone betrays their wedding vows or their promises to the person that they swore to love, honor, and cherish to the end of time. Cheating, again is when you are doing something that you don't want your spouse or partner to know about-whether it would hurt them or make them angry. It's just not physical anymore. I hope I explain it well enough for you to understand, hope so...and Yes it is just as bad-if not worse...
God bless us all........
2006-10-29 19:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by totallylost 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional cheating is when you develop an intense, deep connection to a member of the opposite sex that in many ways replaces or weakens the connection you had with your spouse. It can be very hard to give up, even if it doesn't involve any physical intimacy at all. It's especially difficult when the two people start out as platonic friends, and don't mean for things to get so intense. I believe that this generally happens because the married parties involved are not getting what they need emotionally from their spouse, and start seeking it from other people. As someone else already said, it's socially acceptable to have a friend of the same sex, or another family member fill this void, but when it's someone that you eventually develop romantic feelings for, even if you don't act on them, the damage to your marriage can be just as extreme as with an actual physical affair.
I think the important thing to consider here is that if you are open to forming this kind of attachment, there is very likely something major lacking in your relationship with your spouse. My solution (and, yes, I have been through this) was to leave my husband, because I did not want to commit adultery, and I realized that I was not getting what I needed inside my marriage. I felt like it was as much my husband's fault as mine that this happened, because he was so totally unavailable to me that I was starved for emotional support and concern from an adult male. I am happy I didn't just have an affair, but sad that I couldn't fix my marriage. I am also happy that I found someone who does care for me, and who was willing to wait for me to end my marriage in an honorable way before things went too far.
I think it's important to understand that the biggest problem with cheating is trying to fool your spouse. It's the dishonesty, more than the fact that people's feelings change over time. Realistically, people do fall out of love, and meet other people with whom they'd be happier. If you can be honest about it, it's better to face the fact that the marriage is over than it is to sneak around and act like a hypocrite.
I'm not saying that it won't hurt like h@ll--of course it will. It's just not sleazy and gross, the way hopping in bed with someone would be.
2006-10-29 23:21:07 · answer #3 · answered by homebuyer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional cheating is a term people use when their partner has a close, intimate friendship with someone of the opposite sex. You can have the same type of friendship with someone of the same sex and its considered just that... a friendship. As far as I'm concerned, its a hypocritical term based on nothing more than jealousy.
2006-10-29 10:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by just_me3575 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess it is somethng that is finding a voice. Verbal and Emotional Abuse was not spoken of years ago. If there wasn't any bruses, it wasn't abuse. Well it does exist, I know.
Check out this site: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/335439p-286396c.html
I got it by searching Yahoo "Emotional Cheating". It is a pretty good article describing the difference between friendship & flirting with someone and checking out emotionally with your partner and connecting to someone else.
Hope this helps
2006-10-29 10:39:30 · answer #5 · answered by Margaret K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think emotional cheating might be like a spouse who ignores you or who is just never there. Which also can be considered abuse. Because neg let is just another form of abuse. Breaking your vows is bad no matter how you do it. This is something that my ex-wife did to me and my children. So I divorced her, was given custody of my children and she gets to pay monthly child support. Now my family lives happily ever after.
2006-10-29 10:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by ally_oop_64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional cheating is displaying / providing affection or desire of another while withholding the same from the one you love.
Intentional or not, the action or thoughts will hurt the other should it become known.
2006-10-29 10:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by WhyNotMe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thought emotional cheating is when you have a emotional relationship with another person. Usually you have a close relationship with another girl, who may just be your best friend. You're not getting physical with her, no sex is involved, but maybe you share things with her you wouldnt share with your girlfriend. Maybe you have a great physical relationship with your gf, but youre not emotionally connected.
2006-10-29 10:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by SpinKick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
emotional cheating, who knows where people get these cheating things
2006-10-29 10:29:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is when the one partner is not emotionally with the other partner, and they are having "feelings" for someone else that is not their partner.
(the cheater has pulled away emotionally from the non cheater)
2006-10-29 10:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by ari_is_me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋