Friendship vs. Emotional Affair

Signs Your Friendship Has Crossed Into Questionable Territory

© Cherie Burbach

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Friendships are great. Emotional affairs are trouble. Here are some guidelines to determine if you're having an inappropriate relationship.

Feelings of attraction:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

Sharing inappropriate details of your relationship:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

Longing for your friend instead of your partner:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

Secrecy:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

Your friendship upsets your partner:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

Your friend takes up your thoughts:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

You believe you'll always be closer to your friend than your partner:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

You have feelings of jealousy when your friend finds love:

Friendship:

Emotional affair:

The dangers of emotional affairs when you're dating:

Emotional affairs can be especially harmful to new relationships. When you've first started dating, things are tentative and unsure, and can be easily derailed with misunderstandings. Asking a potential partner to accept an inappropriate friendship is a sure-fire way to end your new relationship before it even starts.

If you are having an emotional affair with the opposite sex, ask yourself why you want to continue. Are you afraid of a real relationship, and therefore are hesitant to end this emotional affair? Having a friend to fantasize about can be a crutch to hold you back from developing a healthy relationship.

Related:

The Danger of Emotional Affairs: Betrayal of Trust


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