Does anyone else think the idea of an "emotional affair" is idiotic?

[intelfan11315]

Originally Posted by expect

i rather get dumped than cheated on.
a man can accept "im over u' or 'i lost interest'. what can u do if shes not interested, on to the next one.
no man can accept "i wanted to taste someone else's junk".

dumped > cheated on

I agree here. There's no way I'll ever be so emotionally invested in one person that I'd say it's ok if I'm cheated on. If she's gonna go whoring around, I'd rather be dumped first.

[round4]

Yeah,easy to think all that....till it happens to you!!!

[SKP440]

In my experience this is a ready made "excuse" successfully used by a lot of women (NOT ALL) to justify an affair. Since most if not all women in this situation are not getting what they want from their current spouses, or boyfriends, the "emotional" affair excuse (which almost always turns into a physical affair) is how the infidelity is sold to the other party to answer the question why? I have also noticed some men are picking up on this and using this as an excuse as well, although it has much less of a success rate when they use it.

[sun queen]

I think I agree with the OP, an emotional affair is non-existent unless your in one Even then I don't think it is a threat to your real life relationship.