"emotional" affairs vs "physical" affairs

[starshimmer]

Jewell's thread about forgiving and forgetting made me think a little about the difference between the two...emtional affairs and physical affairs. A friend of mine thinks that emotional affairs would be harder to get over, and harder for the betrayed spouse to forgive, and I tend to agree with her.

Of course, there's nothing easy to forgiving about phyiscal affairs either, as I am here to attest to. But sharing an intimacy based on love versus lust, and sharing that with somebody else, has to be harder to get past, at least I think so.

[jessi_rubin]

The physical affairs or one night stands are really not an affair to call technically. If you share bed with someone and he does it with someone later doesnt mean that he or she is ditching you because there is no commitment at the first place.

[alexis]

I think emotional affairs are the same as physical ones. If you can not express what you feel to the person you are with, and able to do so with another person, it is still cheating. Think of all the things you share with that person, you should be sharing with the person you are with. I think I would be completely unfair, and I think an emotional fair could easily become a physical affair in a heartbeat!