2007-04-20 01:47:03 · 8 answers · asked by tad 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
An emotional affair is a falling in-love with someone other than your spouse ... without committing physical adultery.
Surely the craziest and most destructive form of infidelity is the temporary insanity of falling in love. You do this, not when you meet somebody wonderful (wonderful people don't screw around with married people) but when you are going through a crisis in your own life, can't continuing living your life, and aren't quite ready for suicide yet. An affair with someone grossly inappropriate--someone decades younger or older, someone dependent or dominating, someone with problems even bigger than your own--is so crazily stimulating that it's like a drug that can lift you out of your depression and enable
you to feel things again. Of course, between moments of ecstasy, you are more depressed, increasingly alone and alienated in your fife, and increasingly hooked on the affair partner. Ideal romance partners are damsels or "dumsels" in distress, people without a life but with a lot of problems, people with bad reality testing and little concern with understanding reality better.
PS. I think the men and women, like us, here on this section of Yahoo Questions and Answers use this as a type of emotional affair (smile).
2007-04-20 02:28:02 · answer #1 · answered by Sultan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is when you get your emotional needs met by someone who is not your spouse or mate. There doesn't ever have to be anything physical to that kind of a relationship.
It becomes an emotional affair when you are going to someone other than your spouse/mate for things and it takes away from the relationship you have with your spouse/mate.
2007-04-20 09:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by ♥itsme♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An emotional affair is when you have strong feelings for someone but haven't taken it it to a physical level. Maybe because your with someone else.
2007-04-20 09:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by Crystal M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
an emotional affair is when you are with someone, but spend time with someone else, and talk about things with the other person. its like cheating, but without sex...it's on an emotional level.
2007-04-20 08:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You have not had sex with another person, but you want to be with them and wish you could be with them to such a degree that it effects your marriage.
This in my opinion goes beyond a harmless fantasy.
2007-04-20 09:23:20 · answer #5 · answered by hi_stk_n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It`s when you are with someone, but discuss intimate things with someone else, usually sexual in nature, but they don`t have sex with that person. These usually happen in the work place or on e-mail.
2007-04-20 09:02:00 · answer #6 · answered by MISTY 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its when to people are connected emotionly , and they could relate easy with the other person ,they probably have alot in common and they are in sync with eachother .
2007-04-20 09:05:01 · answer #7 · answered by dawn p 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are with someone but have feelings with someone else.
2007-04-20 08:51:20 · answer #8 · answered by JB 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋