Someone told me you can have an "emotional affair"? Or calling someone on the phone and talking can be considered an "affair" too?
2007-09-11 10:21:20 · 39 answers · asked by Florida-Fan1 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
If your talking about anything sexual with someone else, i consider that cheating. My husband feels the same way.
Whats considered cheating and not cheating is usually set between a husband and wife.
I know lots of girls who think that your cheating if you watch porn.
2007-09-18 09:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by Niki S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought cheating was physical. But my husband of 11 years heard about me talking/flirting with other men. He came unglued! I am still paying for it and that was in February. I am like a prisoner in my own home now. Not allowed to do anything! Had to change how I dressed. He spends every single moment possible with me now just to make sure I don't stray (as he says) again. I meant NOTHING by it. But it did not and does not matter to him. It was cheating to him and that is all that mattered to him. It was only for about a month and half too. Nothing that lasted a long time or anything. The other men were coworkers and are married too. They had no intentions either. Good luck with this, I'm still dealing with the reprocussions.
2007-09-18 10:12:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional affairs can be far more damaging than physical ones. It's usually the emotional ones that lead to physical ones. When someone is unhappy in a relationship, and they emotionally bond with someone else, then the "cheater" will start to make comparisons between who they're with and who they want to be with. This is usually known as "the grass looking greener on the other side". Be careful, though....that really green grass on the other side could be artificial turf!!!
2007-09-11 10:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by Tbone64 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think when a husband or wife thinks about some one else more, or wants to be with them is consider an emotional affair. If my husband went around talking on the phone to a girl more than he talked to me I would be pissed.
2007-09-11 10:57:57 · answer #4 · answered by cherrie022 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think that you can have an affair without being physically involved with someone, depending on the way you talk to someone-else. If you say things to someone else like you would talk to your spouse that is cheating also, in my eyes.
2007-09-16 17:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by tori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An emotional affair involves sharing feelings and intimate thoughts with one another....and nothing physical has taken place.....but calling someone is not consider an affair.....Unless as I already stated....you talk about your feelings for one another.
2007-09-11 10:26:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be very careful. What you might not consider cheating , might be considered cheating by your partner. Instant messages, phone conversations, emails ... all these things come into play these days.
My advice is to be open from the beginning. Tell it like it is. You have friends on messenger ... tell them so. If you hide it , that's almost like an admission of guilt. A relationship is mutual trust and respect. You have to know what the "other" thinks about these things.
2007-09-11 12:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by Mark W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look up emotional affair in Wikipedia. My husband ended our 25 year marriage after leaving me for a "friend". He did everything step by step as described there. The betrayal I feel has devastated me emotionally. If you are talking to somebody without your spouse knowing you are cheating. Especially if you cross a line and start discussing your marriage. My "wasband" spent so much time talking to his little friend about our damaged marriage that he quit trying to mend it. I will never get over what was done to me.
2007-09-11 11:32:41 · answer #8 · answered by wc2ketey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you talk to someone else about things you cant talk about w/your partner, private personal things, then I consider this to be an emotional affair
2007-09-11 10:57:20 · answer #9 · answered by mimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like the word "cheating" because some people get hung up on technicalities, where maybe the letter of fidelity is followed but the spirit isn't. Putting yourself in situations where another person stands to eclipse our spouses in importance as "the beloved" is not something we do if we value fidelity. I am faithful to my husband, but I am not going to subject that to any test. It's too important to play around with.
I don't think it serves any purpose to make distinctions between "physical cheating" and "emotional cheating". Cheating is cheating.
2007-09-18 16:53:09 · answer #10 · answered by pufferoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋