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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the difference between an affair, a limerent affair, and an emotional affair???

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An affair is an affair, meaning, unfaithfulness to your spouse.  “Limerence” is when people (usually very damaged people with traumatic childhoods) develop an obsession with a person that may not even be reciprocated, but can rise to the level of a full affair if the other person eventually reciprocates.  See this thread for a chronicle of the crazy behavior involved.  An emotional affair is sort of a prescursor to a full affair, in that nothing physical has happened yet but there’s all kinds of inappropriate communication and intimacy happening.[/quote]

This happens to people from all walks of life with a good or bad marriage, lots of sex or none, not just the “very damaged.” I know- it doesn’t feel good to know that but it’s true.[/quote]

It doesn't just happen to people. You do have to make a decision to cheat.[/quote]

No. Cheating is a behavior, limerance is a feeling. Everyone is entitled to experience their feelings.[/quote]

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