Emotional infidelity is when your man craves for emotional intimacy with a person other that you. This is more dangerous than physical infidelity as we don’t know the depths of intimacy your man is sharing with the other woman. Emotional infidelity starts when your relationship with your man is going through a rough phase and he tends to share those deepest feelings in his heart with a person who is not you.
When men share intimate details of their life with a person other than you, he is choosing to receive emotional intimacy from the other person. That person through her gestures and unspoken or spoken words make him feel special and wanted. That makes your man feel good. He begins to further open up more and more and starts liking the feeling he has when he is with her. Here the man slowly, starts craving for the emotional intimacy he receives from that person.
Emotional infidelity - how to deal with?
One may ask where the harm is. This can also be termed as mental tuning. But this seemingly harmless mental tuning can get too addictive at times. Before you even know it, your man may be confiding in everything to this other person including his opinions about you or the deepest and intimate details of your marriage. The actual harm lies in the fact that though your man may be bodily yours but mentally or sometimes even emotionally be with someone else. Such a relationship will eventually not last.
Emotional infidelity is adultery. An adultery that is the most dangerous and is emotionally hurting too. You can stop a man from seeing another woman but how can you stop him from thinking about her?
