Emotional Infidelity involves having non-sexual emotional intimacy with someone who is not your romantic partner. When a person in a committed relationship forms a deep emotional connection with someone other than their partner, it can wreak havoc on the relationship. Emotional affairs, just like physical ones, generally start innocently as a friendship.
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You can usually tell emotional infidelity apart from a close friendship when your sexual attraction or romantic tension comes into play. While obviously both physical intimacy and emotional infidelity are deemed immoral, in most cases the latter is even more devasting.
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Reasons Emotional Infidelity Could Be Worse Than Physical Cheating
1) Harder To Spot
Simply evaluating your partner’s disinterest in you, in and out of the bedroom, helps you in finding out if your partner is having a physical affair. But trying to investigate if your partner’s so-called friend is just a friend or something more, is a whole other ballgame. Due to this very reason an emotional affair can go on for years.
2) Drags Out Longer
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A hookup can happen anytime your partner steps out without you. Physical affairs are usually the result of in-the-moment impulsiveness or sexual attraction. But emotional affairs are somewhat of a slow burn! Building from seemingly innocent messages to never-ending conversation, it can be years before you find out or worse your partner confesses that they’ve always liked someone else.
3) Involves Real Emotions and Feelings
As excruciating as physical affairs feel, there is little chance of love being a factor for your partner to stray and form a sexual relationship with another. However, emotional affairs can simply happen because your partner finds someone else more exciting or you have different lifestyle choices.
4) Makes You Feel Like An Outsider
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Physical cheaters are easier to vilify while an emotional cheater can act like a wrong has been to them! As if they are the victim. They can’t help if they like someone else! And suddenly from someone who was betrayed, you become someone cuel who is an obstacle to their love story!
5) Creates Feelings of Insecurity
While physical cheating is an absolute ‘black and white’ situation, emotional infidelity is a grey area. It Is so much easier for your partner to be in denial cheating on you emotionally. And their repeated denials and your rounds of suspicions can make you begin to question everything. This can have a devastating effect on your self-confidence and create feelings of insecurity. Once you start questioning the reasons why your partner cheated, you start struggling with low self-esteem.
6) Takes Longer To Heal From
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Even though one might argue that your partner didn’t actually sleep with another person, you have to keep explaining to yourself and others that what they did is equally bad if not worse! Not making you and your romantic relationship their number-one priority shows how less you meant to them. Moving on and trusting another person then becomes even harder going forward in your life.
Intentional or not, emotional infidelity causes a lot of anguish. The breakdown of trust between two people because of an emotional affair can cause immense pain and conflict in any relationship. To avoid that, always keep an open line of communication with your partner.
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