Destroyer Of Marriages
Marriage experts usually agree that an emotional affair is damaging to a marriage. The new infidelity is between people who innocently create deep, passionate connections before realizing that they’ve crossed the line from platonic friendship into romantic love. Infidelity is any emotional or intimacy that violates trust. It’s simple to deny the seriousness of emotional affairs — but it can be extremely threatening to a marriage.
If there is ongoing interaction with someone with whom you have been very honest in sharing your deepest thoughts and feelings, this can make a feeling of closeness that stimulates even more sharing—and more closeness, and on and on. Eventually, this relationship can become extremely close and an emotional attachment develops, causing serious damage to the marriage—whether or not it ever becomes “intimate.”