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Emotional affair?

ELLA
ELLA Posts: 784 Forumite
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Has anyone had an "Emotional affair" or as your parter had one?
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  • tattoed_bum
    tattoed_bum Posts: 1,189 Forumite
    I take i'm a bit dim but i don't know what you mean by an emotional affair ,are you meaning having an affair without physical relations .

    Any way i have never had any sort of affair and neither has my dh
  • neneromanova
    neneromanova Posts: 3,051 Forumite
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    I take i'm a bit dim but i don't know what you mean by an emotional affair ,are you meaning having an affair without physical relations .

    Any way i have never had any sort of affair and neither has my dh

    Don't worry, I didn't understand what emotional affair was either.....
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  • Gingham_Ribbon
    Gingham_Ribbon Posts: 31,520 Forumite
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    No and no. I'm not really sure what one is, but if it's about having 'romantic' feelings for someone else or feeling closer to someone else than my husband then no, and if I ever felt that way I'd tell my husband straight away to avoid escalation of the situation.
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • LJM
    LJM Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    nope have never it would feel like i was cheating even without any physical contact
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  • louisaj28
    louisaj28 Posts: 154 Forumite
    assuming all the recent celeb text sex would count under this too?

    Physical or emotional - it's all the same = wrong!
  • *Louise*
    *Louise* Posts: 9,197 Forumite
    I know a couple of people who started that way....it tends to lead to physical in the end

    I certainly wouldn't be happy if my OH was emotionally involved with someone else.....to me that would be worse than some one 'just' having a physical affair. (if you see what I mean)
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  • 74jax
    74jax Posts: 7,930 Forumite
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    I'm stumped over 'emotional affair' too, this could lead down the path again of what constitutes an affair........
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  • ELLA
    ELLA Posts: 784 Forumite
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    Sorry for the cryptic thread, I did mean as in relations or http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article725246.ece
  • 74jax
    74jax Posts: 7,930 Forumite
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    I read that and I thought 'oh there's nothing wrong there' until I got to the point where they lied to their partners. That's when it crossed a line for me.

    I worked with a guy who I couldn't wait to come into the office as he really made my day pass so much quicker, we went though so much work-wise including being made redundant. I didn't however look at him in any romantic way, or find him attractive. I still meet him for lunch every now and again and we get on so well, it's just like he's female friend but in a male body.........
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  • ELLA
    ELLA Posts: 784 Forumite
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    edited 29 March 2010 at 4:50PM
    Or this as a more to the point explanation
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_affair
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