"Emotional entanglements" refers to complex and complicated relationships or situations that involve strong feelings and can become difficult to navigate or untangle. Full definition
Fittingly, this year's AFI Fest was in no short supply of challenging narratives dealing with the brutal consequences of emotional entanglements gone sour. (slantmagazine.com)
Longstanding wisdom has held that it's inadvisable to enter into a new affair before resolving emotional entanglements with a former partner. (datingadvice.com)
The disappointing experience of online dating, Kaufmann argues, is partly explained because we want conflicting things from it: love and sex, freedom and commitment, guilt - free sex without emotional entanglements and a tender cuddle. (theguardian.com)