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1. Emotional affairs are not only possible, they are becoming more and more prevalent, given that people see them as safe or not really acts of betrayal.

2. Emotional affairs are often gateway affairs leading to full blown sexual infidelity.

3. Emotional affairs happen when one married person starts confiding in another person, either at work for nothing other than to be social at first, and then people get deeper into the friendship by revealing more and more information and they start this game of "well my wife/husband does this" yada yada yada; that is when things start getting sticky.

4. Emotional affairs either end or they escalate.

5. Most people who are guilty of emotional affairs are the ones who say they do not think it is cheating.

6. Emotional affairs are one form of emotional contact.

7. Emotional affairs differ from platonic friendships in that there is 1) greater emotional intimacy than in the marital relationship, 2) secrecy and deception from the partner, and 3) sexual chemistry.

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1. Through investing emotional energy and time with one another outside the marriage relationship, the former platonic friendship can begin to form a strong emotional bond which hurts the intimacy of the marriage relationship.

2. Instead of finding emotional intimacy elsewhere, you and your loved one need to talk about the state of your relationship, where it is going, and what you want from it before it is too late.

3. An emotional affair is defined as any infidelity that occurs through feeling or thought.