The Emotional Affair As we previously discussed, emotional affairs are real – and they hurt just as much as physical affairs. Your partner does not need to be physically intimate with someone to be cheating on you, and they do not need to engage in physical contact to be intimate with someone else. In order […]
Emotional Affairs Where is the line drawn between faithful and unfaithful? What constitutes “cheating”? The situation is all too familiar: you and your significant other have been having disagreements about an outside relationship you feel may lead to an affair, while your spouse assures you it could never happen. Many people have long-term friendships of […]
Feeling betrayed by a mate is profoundly devastating. Betrayal is usually associated with infidelity, but even in its absence, emotional betrayal creates great pain and deep marital discord. Knowing how to manage episodes of betrayal is essential to the stability and security of marital connection. In “The war of the Roses: An Interdependence Analysis of […]