Emotional Affair VS Physical Affair

I was reading about this last night and I believe a lot of people really don't know which one of these are really more of a threat to a marriage, emotional or physical affair.

I would really like for you to think about it an tell me what you think ..If your SO was having an affair I know you would be mad either way, but which one do you think would worry you more and affect your marriage more, an emotional affair or a physical one?

I??ve read in some magazines that an emotional affair for a woman can be even more impactful then a physical one. Statistics show that 75% of affairs that start with an emotional affair will end up having a physical affair and usually end up in love and together, where as a physical will be just that, physical and then end. In some cases a physical can end up in emotional but the % of that happening is much less.


How long before a cheating spouse's emotional affair becomes a sexual affair?


If the affair is happening where both parties are within physical proximity, not long at all. If there is distance (like far away places or within hundreds of miles) it may take longer, but, will become more of a "phone sex" scenario. If phone sex occurs, it is the same as physical sex because they are talking and fantasizing about (usually self stimulating as well) what they would be doing if they were together. So basically it is just used to close the distance, but the outcome is the same. Given time, as tension increases and phone sex becomes not enough anymore, both parties will figure out ways to make the physical contact happen regardless of distance.
When you are in an emotional affair, the next step is a ticking time bomb that is going to go off. It is never a question of if, but when, where and how.

Neither would be appealing but for women i believe an emotional affair has far greater impact than a physical relationship. Emotional affairs carry far longer and can completely sever ties from the original committed relationship.

This is something I wouldn't be able to handle well. The moment I discover any of the two I don't feel close anymore, I don't feel any attachment--its just, "We are no longer". Strangers.

I'd really like to say I'd forgive--the other or myself--perhaps I can. But something like this I know will traumatize me--however much I do not know. I can't live on happily in that relationship knowing that it has happened because I'll see it as punishment for being inadequate--something thats been beaten into me since I was little.

Just sign the divorce papers as soon as possible and be done.

Hell they're both bad, but to me emotional affairs are worse because sex is just sex. Now if emotions come with the sex then that's a huge problem. Even when there is no sex involved in emotional affairs, it's still abysmal because that's getting to the HEART of the matter literally, & it's much harder to let go.