Emotional Cheating

Love is a battle of emotions. Emotional attachment is obviously high in relationships where intimacy levels are high. It is also a phase that brings in a lot of possessiveness in the relationship. Possessiveness results in a very rigid relationship that offers no space. These kinds of relationships can also break with the same intensity as they were built. And it is specifically the reason why emotional cheating is one serial killer of these relationships.

What is emotional cheating?

Emotional cheating in simple words is having a relationship with another person, and intentionally or unintentionally taking this further, which ultimately might lead to a romantic / sexual relationship.

Emotional cheating might happen with or without the doer’s knowledge. It is nothing but spending the same emotional energy, and attachment by going into a relationship with another person, when one is already in a relationship with a person.

You might emotionally cheat your spouse or partner without you knowing it. You might start talking to a co-worker casually, and then the friendship grows between you both. This goes a step further, when you both start seeing each other at movies, restaurants, and parks. You start discussing your private, and confidential matters with this person. You share your emotions, fears, and apprehensions to this person. You confide in this person, and also seek romantic consolation. All this is emotional cheating.

If you are going to meet someone, like someone from the opposite sex, without informing your spouse, then you are emotional cheating your spouse. Even if you keep contact with your past partners, it could be classified as emotional cheating.

Emotional cheating can also happen over the Internet, when you might meet a stranger, and befriend this person. In no time this stranger becomes a part and parcel of your life, and you even become emotionally attached to this person.

Who does emotional cheating?

Emotional cheating needs no reason to be done, though many might ascribe it to a lack of emotional harmony and contentment in the current relationship. It can happen anytime to anyone, and anyone might do it, without knowing that it’s wrong.

People who lack emotional intimacy resort to finding it elsewhere. Emotional intimacy is a part of a person’s personality needs. It is different from sexual intimacy. Sexual intimacy is a combination of personality as well as physical needs.