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Emotional affairs are worse, imo. It's heart wrenching watching your partner fall out of love with you, and fall in love with someone else; it's a slow and very painful process.
Sex is just sex, and can be done without affection.
Well both are bad in that I would probably leave a man if I found he did either of them.
But sexual can be worse in 2 ways.
1. STDs. Condoms don't stop everything, and there's still some reckless people who don't even use them at all. And a person should really not have to worry about catching something while sleeping with their SO.
2. Because with just sex, it shows lack of control. If it's someone you had genuine feelings for, it can cause conflict, and sometimes things may even start off as just friendship with an emotional affair. But then more details get shared and the closer they get...yeah. Some may recognize they need to back away at that point. But some won't because they can't chose and thus the secret affair begins.
With just sex however, it seems to show lack of control even for your partner. You couldn't keep your hormones in check enough not to sleep with someone else. It's basically all about their pleasure and what feels good to them. So they would disregard their partner because they're horny and want what they want, not caring how their SO would feel about it. It seems more fleeting and careless with casual sex cheating.
But Emotional can worse in a sense that it could be the one that causes your partner to leave you. Because sometimes with just sex, the person actually does like the partner they have, and may have no issues with the relationship. But 1 is not enough and they want more in terms of sexual diversity. So some could sleep around on their partner for the longest but never have plans to outright leave the relationship. Emotional involvement with another is what could cause your partner to leave you.
And really I could see that as being worse in a sense of having your partner openly leave you for someone they find better. While again, the sexual, even if it breaks your heart, it may be slightly better that they would still be with you had you not found out and possibly left them.
So it depends on one's standards. I can see cases for both on why some would consider one worse. To me, they're equally bad and hurtful. But emotional and dumped over someone else could lead to the jealousy and possible self-doubt.
So the emotional cheating could be more heart-aching and saddening, though a bit of anger. At the rejection which can lead to all those self-doubting emotions. "Are the better looking than me?" "Was I a bad partner?" "Did they never really love me" etc. So, with this one, some may blame themselves, like maybe it was something they didn't do or measure up enough to stay in their So's heart,
The sexual could lead to more anger, then some sadness later. But focuses on the disrespect of your partner which may put anger at the forefront at their behavior. So with this one, you'd be more inclined to blame your partner and feel disrespected.
Yeah.
What's the reason?
Someone help me out.
Because I'd be just as hurt a variety of other ways.
I think it's because most people can't get past the simple idea of property.
If you have a "work wife" that you are always with, eat lunch with, laugh with and talk about everything with and she has a husband
Is this "cheating"?
and if it is why do so many women who got some dude to marry them carry on a seperate relationship with other guys?
just a question...consider it totally hypothetical
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