An emotional affair might seem normal and casual at first, but if given room, it’ll gradually pull you away from your partner.
An emotional affair might seem harmless at the beginning stage because it might not be physical or sexual, but it can turn into these if given the chance, because all forms of unfaithfulness starts in the heart.
These are some of the warning signs that you are crossing the line.
1. YOU START TO THINK A LOT ABOUT THE PERSON
It’s harmful and unhealthy to be in a relationship with someone and start to think a lot about another person. When you find yourself thinking about someone else other than your partner, then it’s one of the first signs that you are straying emotionally.
2. YOU TEND TO COMMUNICATE MORE WITH THAT PERSON THAN YOUR PARTNER
From thinking a lot about that person, you start to talk to each other a lot and communicate with each other more than you do with your partner. You even enjoy communicating with that person than you do with your partner.
3. YOU PREFER TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH THAT PERSON THAN YOUR PARTNER
From talking and communicating, it could transcend into togetherness; you might want to see that person more and spend time more with that person. You’d even prefer the person’s company to your partner’s.
4. YOU WANT TO IMPRESS THAT PERSON
When you start thinking about impressing someone else just to gain an impression on them romantically, it’s another huge sign of an emotional affair.
5. YOU HIDE THE RELATIONSHIP FROM YOUR PARTNER
A relationship that’s honest will be kept open, but when you hide your relationship with that person from your partner, then it’s a sign of having an emotional affair.
6. YOU START COMPARING
It even gets worse when you start comparing your partner with the other person, and then you go on to see the bad in your partner and the good in that person.
7. WISHFUL THINKING STARTS TO STEP IN
Emotional affair gets all too critical when you start to think more about that person and you start to fantasise and wish you could have that person to yourself; your fantasies could even get to the point of having sexual relations with that person.
8. YOUR INTIMACY WITH YOUR PARTNER STARTS DECLINING
Of course the intimacy with your partner will decline terribly when you start to think of another person and fantasise being with them.
These are warning signs that you’re beginning to have an emotional affair with someone else, and if you let it get further than, your relationship with your partner will crash.
Shawn