Emotional cheating involves sharing your deepest, most private thoughts with someone other than your spouse, breaking the fundamental bonds that keep a marriage together.
Not exact matches
Infidelity
involves deception,
emotional abuse (the betrayer typically «gaslights» the betrayed to make the betrayed spouse question their own perceptions), it
involves a MASSIVE drop in self - esteem («am I deficient - is that why he / she
cheated on me), followed up with lack of real remorse.
If you and your partner have clearly agreed not to have emotionally intimate relations with other people, a partner who becomes emotionally
involved with another person may be guilty of
cheating through
emotional infidelity.
Whether it's sexting,
emotional affairs, online
cheating, or infidelity
involving meeting at hotels and other secret trysts.