Getting Emotional Support

February 1, 2010 1:45 am admin Miscellaneous

An emotional affair is when a person not only spends more of their emotional energy outside their marriage, but also obtains emotional support and companionship from the new relationship. In emotional affairs, a person feels closer to the other party and may experience increasing sexual tension.

If you believe that a person’s emotional energy is limited, and then if your spouse is sharing intimate thoughts and feelings with someone else, an emotional affair has developed. Although cheaters are often guilt-free in an emotional affair because there is no intimacy involved, their spouses often view an emotional affair as damaging as a intimate affair.