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Emotional Or Physical Infidelity – Which Is More Painful?
Emotional Or Physical Infidelity – Which Is More Painful?
Infidelity is an act of cheating one’s partner and having an physical or emotional relationship with someone else. A person involved in infidelity can get involved with someone else in terms of physical intimacy or emotional attachment, thereby breaking the boundaries of an existing relationship and the trust of the opposite partner. Infidelity is a widespread problem all over the world and there are several factors which lead to this. These factors can differ from culture to culture or can depend on the type of relationship among two people. No matter what, the outcome or the resultant pain is always the same everywhere. Infidelity can be classified into two categories namely emotional infidelity and physical infidelity. So, which is more painful? Which one causes more trouble? Let us find out the same in the following section of the article.
Physical infidelity – crossing the limitations:
In this variant one person cheats the other by getting involved into an explicit sexual relationship or physical intimacy. Let us start with a couple of questions:
- Will you accept your husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend having a sexual relation with someone else?
- Can you forget that your partner actually had a physical relation with someone else despite being in relationship with you?
The answer to both the questions is “NO”! Once you come to know about such physical intimacy of your partner with someone else, you will be shattered and day after day after day, you will never forget it and your relationship with your partner will never be the same again. This is extremely painful and when the pain reaches to its extreme, what you opt for is a divorce in case you are married or you simply break off with your partner in case you are not married. Thus, your partner’s infidelity will hammer the relationship into pieces.
Emotional infidelity – trauma translated to pain:
In this variant a person gets emotionally attached to someone else with getting into physical intimacy. The person shares fantasies, secrets and emotions with someone else but refrains himself/herself from getting into sexual relationship with some other person apart from his or her partner. Does that mean that the person will not get indulged into a physical intimacy with the other person and cheat on his or her partner? Does that mean he or she is actually not breaking the boundaries of his or her current relationship with the existing partner? Does that mean he or she is completely loyal to his or her partner? The answer to all these questions is “NO”. With the act of emotional infidelity, the person violates the boundaries of the existing relationship and the partner of that person faces an emotional trauma.
The person was supposed to share all his or her emotions and secrets with the partner and not someone else. The partner cannot even rule out the possibility of the person getting involved in the sexual relation with that other person! All these factors causes emotional pain which can be excruciating and continue for long. It is therefore, difficult to say whether physical infidelity is more painful or emotional infidelity. The bottom line is that, both are the methods of cheating and both are painful!
