Emotional Affair Stories

Questions people ask

What counts as an emotional affair?

In these stories it is usually secrecy plus redirection: the good news goes to someone else first, and you are told about none of it. Nothing physical has to happen for the trust to be gone.

People say nothing happened, so why am I this hurt?

Because intimacy left the relationship, and that is a real loss. Our guide to healing after infidelity treats emotional affairs as the betrayal they are, not a lesser version of one.

How do I work out what I actually want now?

Not in the first raw week. The Recovery Companion gives you three weeks of small daily steps first, so the decision gets made by a rested version of you.

Read the guide: Healing after infidelity. Or start the 21-day Recovery Companion — a private daily plan for getting through this, free for three days.