If you're married and you share secrets with a close friend of the opposite sex or go out for drinks after work, you are guilty of emotional infidelity.
Even if there is no sex, he claims that any sort of male-female friendship outside of marriage is adultery. Period.
"If you put the majority of your emotions in the hands of someone other than your spouse, you're still shortchanging your spouse," he says, calling the workplace Ground Zero for emotional infidelity.
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Just because you have a male best friend, you are cheating on your hubby??!!
THis is just many ways that shows how insecure a spouse may be if the another spouse hangs out wiht a member opposite sex! I think that if one cannot hang out with whoever, because of the risk of charged with "emotional cheating" then it is a controlled relationship. (which then leads to an UNHAPPY relationship)
What about homosexual relationships-- YOU are dating YOUR own SEX so what does it mean if you have a same-sex best friend??? you have to get a member of opposite sex as your best friend??
The man doesn't understand the complex of relationships---
It is all about YOU and YOUR will to sleep with that person-- let it be the same or opposite sex, that is ADULTERY because you are getting physcial intimate (sharing the cootchies) as well having love-dovey conversations with him/her ("I love you.. but I cannot sleep wiht you!").
BUT If you just chat, have fun, etc-- that is NOT adultery. PLEASE!
We are not in a Puritan society! We are ALLOWED to talk with whoever we want without thinking about "SEX, BEWARE!" bell going off in our heads. Not everybody is looking for sex relationships but just FRIENDSHIPS.
What if I hang out with a gay man-- does it consider as an emotional extramartial affair??? {shaking her head] I am betting you that the man who coined that term is a right-wing conversative narrow-minded jerk who never heard of "equality". Men and women can CO-EXIST as friends.
If that article is all mighty about this twisted societal norm to control the "way-too-out-there" women, then fuck it I AM GUILTY OF HAVING AN EMOTIONAL AFFAIRS WITH GOOD MEN WHO ARE FRIENDLY, SWEET, AND BEST BUDDIES.