is a emotional affair as bad as a sexual affair?

Question

is an emotional affair as bad as a sexual affair

Answer 1

yes and sometimes worse. Sometimes you can understand physical lust or sexual attraction, but someone wh isnt even touching someone else but bears their soul to another, that is the ultimate betrayal

Answer 2

You have to analyze this emotional affair. To some people a close friendship might be considered an affair, or when their partner find themselves in love with someone else. Feeling in love and acting in love with someone while maintaining another relationship is a form of cheating because their are feelings involved and it means that it wasn't just a casual attraction (not that that's acceptable). Ask yourself if you felt betrayed? If you did then it probably means that you do consider it to be cheating, but weather it was an emotional affair or a sexual affair, the bottom line is that you consider both to be cheating. Best of luck!

Answer 3

No, it's much worse,


Seriously at least with a sexual affair you can say "well I wasn't getting any so I went and got some for my own lustful and therefor weak desires" But an emotional affair is saying, I really don't think I love who I am with anymore and I'm finding out that there is better out there.

If your having an emotional affair there's something missing from the relationship that your in, and it ain't just in the bedroom, the missing part is in the foundation of any relationship.

Answer 4

HELL NO!

For anyone that thinks it is has not had to deal with the mental vision of some other guy banging his wife.

The vision of her talking on the phone is just not there.

The concept of an emotional affair is also a stretch. It is not a good thing when a spouse gets emotional attached outside of marriage but it is not really an affair.
Meeting someone in a hotel room getting naked and swapping spit and other bodily fluids, now that is an affair.

How can anyone believe that an emotional attachment rises to the level of a physical affair. Do they not understand that the emotional attachment precedes the physical and is just the beginning?

Answer 5

Well...I think it could possibly lead to a sexual affair. I would feel "cheated on" if my husband developed a relationship with another woman on an "emotional" level. In fact, before we were married, he was very close friends with a married woman. When we did get married, this woman treated me as though I was a big threat. So, in my mind, they had already "connected," not necessarily as in intercourse, but on an emotional level. But then again, my husband may have had a sexual affair with her but won't tell me....

Answer 6

the two are extremely undesirable, of direction. A one night stand is probable basically approximately intercourse, yet an emotional affair ability there is plenty greater in contact. An on-going sexual affair maximum probable is the two actual and emotional.

Answer 7

well ive never had a sexual affair but i will admit that i have had an emotional affair and it totally ****** my head up! i love my husband with all my heart and would never do anything that would hurt him, then i realized i was! but not my body, my head! its the thought of it more than the action! ive been married 4 11yrs!

Answer 8

Probably worse since you could chalk up a sexual affair to primal instincts. An emotional Affair is so much more hurtfull.

Answer 9

An emotional affair is actually worse than a physical one. When two people are involved emotionally--though their clothes never come off--it harms the marriage more than if the cheating partner was actually gettin' busy with someone for whom he or she felt nothing.

Answer 10

At least you or your partner can't get an STD from an emotional affair, but it's still a betrayal.

Answer 11

I think it is worse. Sex is sex. It is a complete breach of trust but it's just sex. An emotional affair is a breach and a betrayal. It took way more than just lust to get to that point.