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The term emotional affair predates CD.... it's been around a good while.
The reason why some people get upset about the emotional affair is that some people view giving your emotions and energy to another as being worse than giving your body, especially if the cheating was a one time deal, contrast that with someone giving their heart away to another for an extended time....
I can see the emotional affair being worse in some cases...... that would probably hurt me much more than a simple slip up physically... I mean neither one is a is a picnic in the park....let's not BS anyone here.......
Obviously dating someone else while you're in a relationship is bad. I, personally, think that having sex with someone else is much worse.
Either way, if I have a wife or gf that does either, they're gone. No questions asked.
Personally, I think it's even wrong if someone is seriously dating while having a FWB on the side and would be grounds for me to reconsider their character. So, yeah, cheating in any form is certainly grounds for dismissal, imo.
Obviously dating someone else while you're in a relationship is bad. I, personally, think that having sex with someone else is much worse.
Either way, if I have a wife or gf that does either, they're gone. No questions asked.
Personally, I think it's even wrong if someone is seriously dating while having a FWB on the side and would be grounds for me to reconsider their character. So, yeah, cheating in any form is certainly grounds for dismissal, imo.
Well, you're most certainly entitled to your opinion... but sex is just sex, and while that sounds trivial I don't mean it too... but getting emotionally attached to someone is most certainly more painful in the long term...
I've never had someone cheat on me that I know of.... but I'm trying to imagine if Mrs. Chow cheated... I think these things get tougher when you look at them through the prism of you're own life... it's much easier to view someone else's situation and make judgments.....
I felt that the infidelity was only evidence of a much larger problem in our marriage. When confronted, he had a chance to make some changes and just refused. He never once apologized, so I'm not really inclined to forgive him.
I'm not sure I'm capable of forgiving but I'd like to think it would be a possibility if it was truly a one time thing that didn't mean anything to him. I love him and I love our family. It would break my heart if my children didn't have both parents around everyday.
To me, it really is immaterial whether an indiscretion is a one time thing, if it "meant anything" to my partner, etc. The thing that really matters is the blatant lack of respect inherent in cheating on someone.
The term emotional affair predates CD.... it's been around a good while.
The reason why some people get upset about the emotional affair is that some people view giving your emotions and energy to another as being worse than giving your body, especially if the cheating was a one time deal, contrast that with someone giving their heart away to another for an extended time....
I can see the emotional affair being worse in some cases...... that would probably hurt me much more than a simple slip up physically... I mean neither one is a is a picnic in the park....let's not BS anyone here.......
Yeah. Very true.
Still, I often think when these questions come up on here that people are picturing relationships that are going well (or so they think)...then...BAM!
This horrible thing happens out of the blue.
If you're married to someone or seriously dating someone who does that sort of thing for kicks, you should run.
I suspect that this is a minority of cases, though. I figure most cases there's something very wrong. I know that's how it was with my brother and his wife.
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Even when it happens seemingly out of the blue, something was wrong. Sometimes the unhappy party keeps whatever is wrong to him or herself, or the other pparty is in denial, etc. It's not really out of the blue.
Sorry, no. It's pretty much a deal-killer for me. Trust is a basic building block of any relationship -- I refuse to live wondering if he is "really" where he said he was going, why he's running late, not looking his FB page and wondering "who that woman is", etc., etc.
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