The secret affair partner was a divorce attorney by profession (several years older) and it was a nasty, cruel divorce to go through, especially while expecting a baby.
Not exact matches
(VEER) If your relationship is in turmoil because one
partner has lost his or her interest in sex, the explanation might be psychological or medical or something else entirely, such as a
secret attraction or
affair.
As many of you will know, in mid-July of this year the infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, which enables married people to find
partners with whom to conduct
secret affairs, was the target of hackers who released certain user information to the public.
Couples therapy may also be of limited or no value if one or the other
partner is engaged in an ongoing
secret affair or is making covert significant financial decisions without the other
partner's knowledge).
Keeping
secrets from your
partner is dishonest, whether you are talking about covering up an addiction or an
affair or hiding money from your
partner.
The slippery slope from «just good friends» to
affair partners can seem innocent until you realize that you kept the relationship a
secret and deceived your
partner about the time spent with your «friend» and the amount of emotional energy invested in the relationship.
To test this, we gave people some fictional stories describing realistic scenarios where the main character had an
affair, and then either confessed to their
partner or kept it a
secret.
And when something blatantly goes wrong, such as one
partner being untruthful or breaking a commitment, such as a
secret affair, that's a big indicator that there is work to be done.
During the emotional
affair it is highly likely that intimate
secrets will be shared that would normally be discussed only with the
partner.
Was it an
affair if the offending
partner shared intimate details about the relationship, kept meetings and communications a
secret from the non-offending
partner, but never had sex (usually coined as an emotional
affair)?
Letting the
secrets out of the bag helps them detach from the
affair partner and dissolve the romantic fantasy.
If a
partner is harboring a
secret, such as an
affair, and isn't willing to disclose it, the EFT therapist can help the person move toward revealing the
secret during the early stages of therapy.