Signs of emotional infidelity

Infidelity is one of the most difficult situations that a couple can go through. When the couple is unfaithful, the exclusive pact that one had with the other is totally broken and of course the respect that existed in the relationship. In the case of emotional infidelity, it is a feeling that is not specified and that appears even without our realizing it when frequenting another person outside the couple too much either for work reasons, because they had previously had a friendship with that person person, etc.

In this article from Psychology-Online: signs of emotional infidelity, we are going to give you some clues so that you can detect if your partner is being emotionally unfaithful, some of these signs will surprise you.

Index

1. 6 signs to detect an emotional infidelity
2. Emotional infidelity: how to overcome it
3. Psychological therapy to overcome emotional infidelity

There are 2 types of infidelity, sexual infidelity, which occurs when the couple has an affair for one night or sporadically where there are no feelings involved and infidelity emotional. Emotional infidelity appears when a special connection is generated with another person other than the couple, where there is no sexual contact.

Next we will let you know which are the signs of emotional infidelity what your partner may be emitting if he is emotionally unfaithful:

• Constantly name the other person. You notice that he is constantly talking about the other person. It may be that he keeps telling about everything they have experienced, what has happened recently, that he makes comparisons with you, etc.
• He calls you by her name. It is common for them to accidentally get confused and call you by the name of the person in question.
• She talks a lot with him (her). You notice that he spends a lot of time talking to his partner or friend, who tells him everything that happens to him and stops telling you things.
• Increase or decrease in sexual intercourse. It may be that overnight your partner feels the desire to have many more sexual relations with you than that they did it habitually because it projects the physical attraction and desire that they feel for the other person towards you. The opposite can also happen and that suddenly the sexual desire for you has almost disappeared.
• She is more distant. Another sign is that your partner is being distant with you. When a person behaves distant with us, sometimes it is not necessary for them to say or even do something, they simply feel and perceive that there is something different in him (her).
• They don't care about you. You notice that now he shows you very little interest and it is not because he is having some kind of problem or going through a difficult situation, it just seems that he does not care what happens or not with you and sometimes you feel that, directly, your boyfriend ignores you.

Despite the fact that emotional infidelity is one of the most painful situations you can go through, there are always ways to cope and that finally this situation does not end with our self-esteem and love own self. Here are some keys for you to overcome to achieve it.

• Talk to your partner. Suggest to your partner that they sit down one day to talk about what is happening, explain what you perceive with His way of acting, the way he has changed with you and how that situation is making you feel. Avoid complaints and never resort to violence, on the contrary, tell him in an assertive and sincere way how you feel at the moment and ask him to give you an explanation. Finally come to a conclusion and determine what would be the best solution.
• Make an effort. If they have finally decided get over the infidelity and continue the relationship and root out your partner's relationship with the other person, it is necessary that not only he (she) makes an effort to recover the relationship and renew himself. You both have to do your part to give the relationship a good second chance and make it grow.

In most cases it is not easy to recover from an emotional infidelity, especially when there is a deep love for the partner. It is not easy to accept that this may be happening, it may not even be for the person who is being emotionally unfaithful. So when they have tried to get ahead despite this and it is not achieved or when finally the couple has decided to end the relationship and the pain is too deep, it is always advisable to receive care psychological.

Couples therapy for emotional infidelity in marriage

The objective that psychological therapy would have in this case is in the event that it is decided to recover the relationship, overcome that wound that has been left to the person victim of infidelity, improve the destructive perspective that was had about what happened, that both parties can make the passes in a healthy and sincere way and provide them with tools so that they can grow their relationship. In the event that a breakup has occurred, the affected person would be helped to rebuild her life again, thus overcoming infidelity depression. You work with your self-esteem and self-esteem and finally it is achieved that the pain of the breakup allows you to get ahead and diminish over time.

This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.

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