Often disguised as friendships,
emotional affairs take friendship too far.
Emotional affairs take away from intimacy within the relationship and create a wedge between two partners.
The seven stages of emotional affairs illustrated below are written from a male point of view, based on my understanding from men who have sought out counseling to explore the occurrence of how
their emotional affair took place.
Not exact matches
It is always a high - profile
emotional affair when Arsenal
take on Spurs, and it is the one game that both sets of fans really hate losing.
I'd make the analogy that unrevealed theft of cash from your employers till
takes currency from the business in the same way that unrevealed
affairs steal
emotional currency from a relationship.
The act of infidelity itself is not
emotional abuse — it's the behavior that comes with an
affair to keep from being found, out or
taking responsibility for ones actions.
Yes, remarkably, as rich an
affair as this is, the fluid story telling and constant surprises keep the film rolling along,
taking us on a wildly entertaining,
emotional and fulfilling ride.
No real attachment is involved and an
affair doesn't
take place within an
emotional relationship.
There are, however, steps to
take to back away from an
emotional affair with a co-worker.
To recover the broken trust, end your
emotional affair and
take responsibility for your actions, advises Dr. Salz.
Although
emotional affairs often do not include physical intimacy, they can
take away from the relationship by encouraging one partner to get his or her
emotional needs met elsewhere, and by bringing secrecy and deception into the relationship, which damages trust just as surely as if the partner had slept with the other person.
Some things to consider should infidelity occur are whether you both agree that
emotional affairs are equal to sexual infidelity, what steps you will
take in being honest with one another about your sexual desires and
emotional needs if they are not being met in the marriage, as well as how you will talk to your partner if you begin to feel attracted to someone else.
In short, it's easier to
take emotional risks with a potential
affair partner than the person you're committed to spending the rest of your life with.
First and foremost, an
emotional affair is characterized by an intimate connection with someone who isn't your partner but the person
takes on many of the functions of your partner.
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In this way, some marriages can even be stronger after surviving an
affair, but it will
take each person working on one's own
emotional distance.
The more people can
take responsibility for their part in the problem, the more likely couples will create a deeper
emotional intimacy than they experienced before the
affair.
An
emotional affair doesn't necessarily have to mean the end of a relationship, but it does
take work to recover.
Whether you suspect that an
emotional or physical
affair is
taking place, or you know that infidelity has occurred, hope is not lost.