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Originally Posted by Adder
People seem to go out of their way to feel betrayed by their partners. |
Well, sometimes when people say "emotional affair" they are talking about a non-disclosed or inadequately disclosed close but platonic friendship between someone who is married and a person of the sex that the married person is attracted to.
And sometimes they are talking about a non-disclosed romantic relationship between someone who is married and a person of the sex that the married person is attracted to with all of the bells and whistles of a typical romantic relationship minus physical intimacy.*
If my wife was secretly receiving jewelry, flowers, going for long walks on the beach, talking about The Meaning Of Life with someone else, I don't think I'd be "going out of my way to feel betrayed" - if I felt, well, betrayed. But that's just me.
*Used to avoid Clintonesque debates over what "sex" is or is not. Let's just say that our hypothetical married person didn't even hold the other person's hand. The analysis is the same.
