Emotional unfaithfulness is a tricky subject when it comes to love and relationship. When dealing with emotional affair, you ought to be careful because it can easily be confused with your partner passing through a bad patch and shutting you out.
A partner suffering from depression or having a difficult time will show similar signs of having an emotional affair. Sometimes, you could even be the emotionally unfaithful partner and you wouldn’t know.
An emotional affair might not really be physical, but it’ll hurt the relationship.
However, below are signs of a partner who’s having an emotional affair.
1. YOUR PARTNER RELATES WITH YOU DIFFERENTLY
A partner who’s having an emotional affair will slowly change the way he/she relates to you. Arguments will change, communication will change, togetherness will take a dent, likewise planning and every routine that your relationship has become accustomed to.
2. COMMUNICATION BECOMES TOO INFREQUENT
True communication starts from the heart before it manifests in reality. When the communication between a couple starts to dwindle, then it must have been conceived in the heart by one or even both partners. A partner who’s having an emotional affair will see it as a burden to communicate with you.
3. YOUR PARTNER SEEMS DETACHED
An emotional affair could also make your partner start to get disconnected from you; when your partner starts having attention from someone else, your partner could gradually become disinterested in you and start becoming detached till the relationship turns really sour and unfixable.
4. DRASTIC CHANGE IN SEX LIFE
If you are a married couple, an emotional affair is another tricky thing that has ruined many marriages. Sex is even more emotional than physical; it’s first valued in the heart before the body. When one partner starts being emotionally connected to another person and lose the connection of hearts in the marriage, the sex life will gradually diminish till it becomes nonexistent.
5. LOSS IN INTEREST
Emotional affair could also make a partner lose interest in so many things they once had interest in. Maybe you both loved to take walks, go on dates, watch movies and do a lot of things together — an emotional affair can make a partner lose interest in all these things, even though that partner used to love doing them before.
6. SUDDEN SECRETIVENESS
A partner having an emotional affair will suddenly start keeping secrets. Such a partner will hide a lot of things from you, start being shady and will gradually become too secretive. The openness that once existed will be lost gradually.
An emotional affair will gradually kill the love and trust in a relationship, and in no time, disunity, lack of togetherness, quarrels and misunderstanding will take over the relationship.
An emotional affair is quite tricky and ought to be handled early on.
Shawn