Is It Considered Cheating If You Get Emotionally Intimate With Another Person?

Actually, I worry far more about emotional cheating than physical cheating. I think if you get to a point where you are sharing more with someone else than you are with your partner, then something is wrong. For my own relationship, I always talk with my husband about friendships that we have with others. We always know exactly where boundaries are, and if we do feel there might be a question about something, we make sure to say it instead of just being suspicious and resentful. I did have a partner who cheated on me emotionally before, and it hurt me a lot more than being physically cheated on by someone else did.

I think if you have to ask if its cheating, then its cheating. Often emotional cheating can be worse than physical. With physical there may have been the excuse that you were really drunk, but with emotional it is definitely intentional. If someone is emotionally initimate with someone that is not their partner, I'd have to ask, what need is this new person fulfilling that your partner isn't and why?

Well I think it really depends on different factors. I mean I am definately emotionally intimate with my best friend but that isn't cheating. that is just our realtionship. I think if your partner is hiding any realtionship from you whether it is physical or not, then there is a problem. I like for my husband to have someone else that he can talk to and I have my best friend. If the emotional relationship with the other person starts to affect your relationship then there is a problem. It really depends on the people involved. My husband once met a woman and he really loved talking to her. He did tell me about her, but he gave me the cliff notes version. Well it got to be where he was talking to her more than me and not sharing with me what they talked about. then he started making up excuses to go out, but would go see her. That caused a lot of problems with us and in the end we almost got divorced, but we were able to work it out. It took a lot for him to earn my trust back. SO I guess, if there is lying involved, if it affects your realationship, if your partner talks more to the other person than to you, then yes I think it is a form of cheating, but I don't think it is worse than phsyical cheating. Normally I would sya it is worse but sitting here I realized that if my husband had cheated phsyically then I would have left him in a hear beat, but with this emotional stuff I stayed. I guess it depends on the person.

In my opinion it is, and in my experience it can lead to more too. We tend to get attracted to people that we can talk to and that we can share things, the more we share the more we connect with the person. If the marriage or long term relationship is going through a difficult phase that can be dangerous. Moreover it sometimes takes from the communication within the main relationship, which doesn't help either. An emotional connection is something very strong and sometimes it can be more damaging than a physical one, depending on the people involved.

What kind of details are you describing as intimate? People can always talk and share ideas, but when you used the word intimate, it makes me think there is talk going on between the two people with reference to romantic topics. This would be a lead into deeper romantic areas. If you are talking about news items, or sports, fine, but intimate raises a red flag, dont you agree?

I have read somewhere that unzipping your heart is like unzipping our pants. Little by little, a deeper emotional bond will be built and before you know it, you're in too deep. Better confess marital confidences with the person you married than to someone else.

Well i think well to me cheating is when someone breaks your trust and does something behind your back with another person. Like for example any physical relationship going on with someone that you aren't married with... Or even going out with them unless you are just going out to see what's new... But those are two different things.

I don't see this as being cheating, it's natural to share yourself with people you are close to and can trust. If it were to turn physical, then there would be something to worry about. But denying someone a best friend, then you're denying an almost basic need.

I don't know, but I have been told that it is