The Emotional Affair - It's A Sign, Use It To Your Advantage

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Many people view extramarital affairs as sexual flings. Some of these "hook-ups" can happen for just one night, and some go on for years. What most people don't know is that getting too close to anyone outside of your marriage, even when sex is not involved, it is called an emotional affair. Emotional affairs commonly occurs when one spouse feels unappreciated, so they start gushing their troubles to someone else as a "friend".

(This someone else can be a person from work, a neighbor or even a mutual acquaintance!). If allowed to continue for too long, they will start anticipate spending all of their spare time with this person, and by then they're putting all of their emotional efforts into how and when with this "other" person rather than using it to strengthen their marriage.

Witnessing that your cheating wife is having an sharing emotional love with another man is soul-destroying. I frequently hear, I can handle her screwing around with someone else. I think I can deal with that. I remember what she was like when she really loved me, and I have real trouble dealing with the thought of her offering her best to someone else!.

The first partner to make the emotionally separation is usually the one to start an emotional affair outside of the home. Even the strongest people need love and reassurance, and if they
aren't getting what is important to them at home, they make themselves open to finding it somewhere else. Although many emotional affairs start out as simply friendship, they can
grow rapidly into something else. Paradoxically, many don't even know that it has until it blows up in their face.

No matter what is going on at home, emotional affairs are still wrong. They can be even more acute and painful as a sexual affair because the person they love and care about offers up their intimate feelings and affections to someone else. The sense of betrayal is at least the same, and for some people much worse! The offending spouse may tell themselves they are not doing anything wrong because they are not having sex with this person. But if left going on long enough, most emotional affairs lead to sex anyway. How and when to move their affair to the next level becomes part of the ride so sex
is simply a matter of time.

So what can you specifically do to improve the odds of saving the marriage? Often the wounded spouse responds with strong emotions and then pulls out all stops to win their other half back. You implore your needs on her, Try to sweet-talk. Constantly makes promises. Constantly confronts her. Sends flowers. Arranges for dates. complains to her family and friends. Calls her on the phone. Constant questioning, sometimes even hourly. He becomes completely overbearing.

This tactic is doomed to fail.

Why? Well, for one reason she has found all the stimulation and excitement she supposedly needs in her new-found love. At a deeper level this is confusing enough for the cheating husband or
unfaithful wife. Any additional input will be overwhelming and she is likely
to shutting down the marriage even further. Plus, she is really looking for is someemotional stability, by being that solid centered core
that will hold her firm when the wind of drama or that external excitement entices and blows her around.

If you overwhelm her with your neediness, then you are for certain NOT helping your marriage in a important way that's needed during this time. She is also likey to drive a deeper wedge between you by making comparisons between you and him. With your overwhelming neediness, you don't stand a chance of coming out ahead.

Sorry!

Here's a tactic that helps solve the quandary and gives you a greater chance of saving the marriage. It's called backing off! You need to learn how to disconnect. Stop pressing her. Keep a low profile. Be silent and nonchalant - most of the time. Stop making requests that could be viewed as breaching her personal space. Stop asking questions. Stop trying achieve some assurance from her. Stop being a general pain in the ass!

Remember, this smitten state will fade... You need to possess the confidence that it will. You will need a boatload of patience. This outside affair can and with the right components, will, run its course. While in this zone, she really does need the space. She needs separate, quiet time to truly get a line on herself and confront the emotional void within. There will be a voice within her that says, This will not last. Whether or not she ever shares it with you, she will always question whether or not this what she really wants? At some time I must live in the real world. Where am I going with this? Is this the direction that I really want to go? Why am I so dependent on him? Why do I feel this empty pit in my stomach when I'm not with him? What does this say about me?

If she is mature enough, and not too far gone, this will be her opportunity to learn about what TRUE love is. Don't get in her way. I know. I know. This is easier said than done. But, you must do it. It is vitally important that you learn to control yourself and keep on the straight and narrow path. It is at this point with the men I talk to, where I show them a skill called "charging neutral" to help "back off." Use that skill.

This will take some effort. It most likely will demand that you learn more about yourself, that you gain more confidence in yourself, apart from what you may imagine she does with him, and that you build a strong foundation under yourself that can weather this storm.

This is your opportunity to grow to another level. Oh, by the way. She will notice! And, she might like it. Your backing off does not mean that you don't

have anything to do with her. Quite the contrary. You want to maintain touch with her, but it will be
only for QUALITY contact. Try to ensure that it will be the kind of communication that does reward to you, and that confronts her
with the reality of her actions. It could be very effective toward the resolution for the marriage.

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