Emotional affairs are much harder to track than physical affairs, but they can be just as damaging to a relationship. What makes them so dangerous is that it can happen with out you even knowing it while driving an emotional wedge between you and your partner.
Having a friend of the opposite sex does not mean you or your spouse is involved in one, but they occur when you or your spouse becomes more emotionally connected with someone else rather than each other. If you feel more excited and comfortable sharing intimate details about your life with someone of the opposite sex rather than your partner or spouse, this could be a be a sign of a budding emotional affair.
Read below for the 6 most common signs of emotional affairs to determine whether or not an emotional affair is happening in your relationship.
6 Signs of an Emotional Affair
Both you and your partner or spouse need to be aware of the signs of emotional cheating, but don’t jump to conclusions without investigating these signs first. If either you or your partner or spouse can answer “YES” to most of these questions there’s a good chance that an emotional affair is taking place whether you know it or not.
1. Has your partner or spouse stopped sharing their emotions with you?
If the answer is yes, there’s a good chance that their emotional energy is being spent on someone else.
2. Has your partner or spouse become secretive about their schedule during the day?
When an emotional affair takes place, usually someone will keep that “friendship” hidden including the time they spend with that person.
3. Have you started fighting more often?
When someone is emotionally cheating they feel like the other person is out to get them and just doesn’t understand their situation which leads to fighting and denial.
4. Do they frequently change the subject when pressed about the relationship?
Has your partner tried to sweep your concerns about the relationship under the rug saying ‘there’s no need to worry’ and they’re ‘just friends’? Often they will deny the relationship to themselves but will become irritable when you try and bring it up.
5. Has their sex drive gone down?
Has your partner’s desire for sex gone down recently? Have they become sexually distant from you? Emotional affairs tend to lead to sexual tension in relationships where sexual fantasies are spent on the other person and not you.
6. Are they keeping their Facebook and Twitter accounts hidden?
Has your partner or spouse recently changed their Facebook or Twitter passwords? This could be a clue that they are hiding an emotional affair from you.
The 6 signs mentioned above are indicators that there is an emotional affair going on or in the works. If you find that the answer to most of these questions are YES take this as a sign that your relationship might need some work.

Cheating physically on your spouse or partner is easy to avoid, or at least it should be. But preventing yourself getting involved in an emotional affair can be more difficult. They tend to start out innocently, for example just sharing with a work colleague the frustrations of a weekend with family, the odd drink after work to talk about that new boss. Before you know it you are relying on each other more and more for guidance, support and comfort. Such a closeness with someone other than your partner can spoil the intimacy and uniqueness of your long-term relationship.







