Emotional Affairs: Causes and Consequences

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🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. I do get queried about emotional affairs. Now, emotional affairs are just as bad as affairs that have sex.
0:39.9	The reason being the most hurtful and painful part to the spouse of their spouse having an affair is the deception, the betrayal, and the lies.
0:57.5	You should forgive the expression, sex would just be the cherry on the bad cake.
1:03.5	So they're the same.
1:07.4	Now, emotional affairs generally start innocently,
1:13.5	except people are drawn to each other physically.
1:16.1	They may not want to admit it,
1:21.5	but we generally only have emotional affairs
1:24.5	when we're already attracted to somebody.
1:29.1	Generally, that slides downhill into sex.
1:37.9	Emotional affairs are a gateway.
1:41.0	If they don't, it's something like at least 50% turn into sex at some point.
1:46.4	The other percentage, maybe it stopped.
1:49.6	Maybe you live 3,000 miles away.
1:52.5	Okay.
1:54.5	Now, most of the people having emotional affairs actually feel no guilt.
1:59.9	No guilt.
2:04.1	Really? They think what they're doing is fine because there's no sex but we already know that the deception the betrayal the lies uh yeah but they don't feel guilt.
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