This document discusses emotional affairs and their impact on relationships. It defines an emotional affair as a deep, intimate connection between partners that provides a certain intensity, though it may not be physical. Constituting emotional cheating involves concealing the extent of the relationship from one's spouse or making the other person feel more "special." Discovering an emotional affair can elicit feelings of guilt, sadness, anger, neglect, or being defensive in the betrayed partner. The document provides resources for rebuilding trust and healing the relationship after an emotional affair.

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2. What Is An Emotional Affair? Not easy to define May not be physical Usually deep intimate connection Certain degree of intensity Often called emotional affairs No less challenging than physical affair

3. What Constitutes Emotional Cheating? Ask yourself these questions Is the extent of the relationship concealed from you, or is it transparent? Does your spouse feel “special” with the other person but not with you?

4. Emotional Affairs vs Friendship In some way, to the cheater it feels “wrong” They know that communicating with another on this personal intimate level is not acceptable This is why they conceal the truth

5. Emotional Affairs vs Friendship When pushed, they may even defend the behavior “its ok to have a best friend of the opposite sex”

6. Emotional Affairs Reactions When discovering your spouse is engaged in an emotional affair, you may feel one or more of the following: Guilt: You may feel as if you’ve broken your partner’s trust by crossing a line of privacy and “snooping” into a personal account Sadness: Your husband or wife is sharing a close connection with someone other than you.

7. Emotional Affairs Reactions Anger: Your partner is investing effort into another relationship when it’s your own marriage that needs work. Neglect: It can highlight the fact that you and your partner no longer share intimate details, only trivialities such as what the kids did or what to put on the grocery list.

8. Emotional Affairs Reactions Defensive: You may shut down or become protective because your partner has pounced on you for going through his or her “private business.”

9. Where To Go From Here? There is hope, you can rebuild your marriage and start the healing process To start the process with a free step by step course made especially for you, visit www.emotionalaffairssite.com