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Page 1: Emotional Affairs

Emotional Affairs

More Hurtful Than You Think

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Page 2: Emotional Affairs

What Is An Emotional Affair?

Not easy to define

May not be physical

Usually deep intimate connection

Certain degree of intensity

Often called emotional affairs

No less challenging than physical affair

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What Constitutes Emotional Cheating?

Ask yourself these questions• Is the extent of the relationship concealed

from you, or is it transparent?• Does your spouse feel “special” with the

other person but not with you?

Page 4: Emotional Affairs

Emotional Affairs vs Friendship

In some way, to the cheater it feels “wrong”

They know that communicating with another on this personal intimate level is not acceptable

This is why they conceal the truth

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Emotional Affairs vs Friendship

When pushed, they may even defend the behavior “its ok to have a best friend of the opposite sex”

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Emotional Affairs Reactions

When discovering your spouse is engaged in an emotional affair, you may feel one or more of the following:

• Guilt:  You may feel as if you’ve broken your partner’s trust by crossing a line of privacy and “snooping” into a personal account

• Sadness:  Your husband or wife is sharing a close connection with someone other than you.

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Emotional Affairs Reactions

• Anger:  Your partner is investing effort into another relationship when it’s your own marriage that needs work.

• Neglect:  It can highlight the fact that you and your partner no longer share intimate details, only trivialities such as what the kids did or what to put on the grocery list.

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Emotional Affairs Reactions

• Defensive:  You may shut down or become protective because your partner has pounced on you for going through his or her “private business.”

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Where To Go From Here?

There is hope, you can rebuild your marriage and start the healing process

To start the process with a free step by step course made especially for you, visitwww.emotionalaffairssite.com