Emotional affairs can ruin relationships despite the lack of physical indiscretion.
An emotional affair may be defined as an emotionally intimate relationship with another person that detracts from your primary relationship. Hiding details about your life from your legitimate partner is a sign of an emotional affair. Not all emotional affairs end in physical indiscretion, but the longer they go on the more likely this is. Recovering from an emotional affair, either as the person in the affair or as the betrayed partner, is difficult.
Instructions
1. Write your feelings in a private journal daily. Using a private journal to put your feelings down on paper helps you process your anger, pain and grief.
2. Spend time with friends and people unrelated to the emotional affair. Supportive friends and family remind you of your self-worth.
3. Schedule time to feel whatever feelings you have. Spend fifteen minutes a night alone, allowing yourself to cry, to scream into a pillow or to laugh. Expressing these emotions in private during a specified time gives your body an outlet.
4. Spend time with your partner regularly. Do activities together that you enjoyed at the beginning of your relationship. Talk to each other every day to open up communication. These things help re-establish your intimacy with your partner.
5. Go to a registered psychologist, a talk therapist, if your feelings interfere with your regular life. Ending an emotional affair is difficult; therapists help you process your feelings and heal.
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