What is an Emotional Affair?
An emotional affair is the same as what most peple think of when they think of an affair except less the intimate parts. An emotional affair is an affair that allows its particapants think that they are not doing anything wrong because of no intimacy. Anytime you are spending private moments with someone of the opposite sex at private times you are having an emotional affair. If you are close in anyway to someone of the opposite sex and you can’t reveal everything that is said, you might be in an emotional affair. If you’re e-mails are all that private you might be having an emotional affair. It’s cheating plain and simple DON’T BE FOOLED!
Emotional affairs are amazingly complex relationships that come in many varieties, which means that no single definition can hope to completely describe them all. Nevertheless, it’s possible to define emotional affairs based upon their most general characteristics. Here is our definition: an emotional affair is an intense, primarily emotional, nonsexual relationship that diminishes at least one person’s emotional connection with his or her committed partner. Now let’s pull this definition apart to look at its major components. The Intensity of the Emotional Affair One way emotional affairs differ from mere friendships is that the people involved in them become “positively charged.” By that, we mean that people like May and Brad are strongly attracted toward each other. They look forward with great anticipation to their meetings. And when they do get together, whether face to face, by phone, or even by e-mail, they become engrossed with each other. Time flies so fast that sometimes they
