Is emotional cheating real?

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Is emotional cheating a real thing? Or just a term coined by insecure people? What do you consider emotional cheating?

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The person cheating can legit fall in love with the person outside of their relationship and it’s more than being about sex. They actually want this person long term. It’s not just a physical thing.
So yea it’s an actual thing.

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Yep it's real, imo. 
Emotional cheating would be sharing a deep and intimate emotional or romantic connection with someone you desire romantically, or sexually, and the also desire you back. And I think both people tend to be aware their dynamic is more than friendly. 
It doesn't cross the line into physical, probably because both really don't want to be that person or views it as wrong.
Or there is no hope of being together anyway. 
It's like having a whole relationship besides your monogamous relationship, just without anything physical. 
It is very different from just being friends, but it's harder to spot from afar. A lot of times, the people involved may partly be in denial about the nature of the relationship. 
I think a lot of good people can fall into these types of relationships, because they are not crossing certain boundaries, but a lot of people feel guilty but can't really tell they're on a slippery slope. 
This likely comes up when their partner isn't fulfilling certain needs, no fault of their own, most likely. Being in a long term relationship is tough.

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What does being insecure or not have to do with this? You seem to not understand what emotional cheating is or means.

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Emotional cheating is a thing. It’s when you are falling for another person but may not have had sex with them yet. Emotional cheating IS NOT confiding in a friend of the opposite sex. It’s falling in love with someone else. I think that where people get the lines blurred. I do think insecure people use this term too loosely in an attempt to control friendships they feel threatened by.

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If you don't care that your SO is messaging another women he loves her, or misses her voice, or wish they can be together, than yeah your a very secure independent person and emotional cheating just a term coined by insecure women. Cause you know, a relationship is just about sex and you don't need a man to tell you he loves only you.

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It most definitely is a real thing.

Is emotional cheating real?

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