I was listening to the radio on the way to work when the DJ was talking about having an emotional affair and would you leave your significant other for the emotional affair. At first I thought this was utterly ridiculous until real people were calling in agreeing with it . How could someone leave their significant other because of an emotional affair... no hugging, kissing, sex, or romantic weekends. When I say significant other I mean long term relationships (3+ years) or marriage. I understand how emotions play in a relationship and they can be both positive and negative, but at some point in time things have to become physical, the parties involved have to admit that yes we need to be together.

I personally believe that it would need to be a physical and emotional relationship and you had better be damn sure that your making the right decision. Yes, I'm coming down hard on this due to my recent martial problems because I feel that marriages/long-term-relationships are based on the spiritual, physical and emotional involvement in another person and all three need to be there for a healthy relationship. Just leaving, hoping that the other two sides of the relationship will come together is foolish and ignorant. It may work out, it may not, but as it stands you only have a 33% chance of success vs. the 50% (because for the most part that's what your going to lose) you have in your current relationship.

Love is by far the strongest emotion and/ or feeling that a person can have and I am by no means dismissing that. But can that be all that the relationship is based on. Like I said, I am talking about leaving your partner solely on the emotional involvement that you have with someone else.

Yes this is high debatable but inquiring minds want to know.

So blogland what do you think. Would you leave your loved one for another based solely on your emotional attachment to the other person.

Sam

P.S. I'm not here to judge... I just want to know how other feel about this.