Sexless Cheating: Is It Really Insignificant in a Marriage?

Is there a difference between sexless cheating and physical infidelity? Or are just as bad as the other? Read on to find out.

One of the main concerns that people have when they discover that their partner has had an affair is whether or not their spouses are “in love” with the other person. This is especially true for women.

Most people, when told that the affair didn’t go as far as having a sexual relationship, dismiss it and say that it’s not really an affair because no sex was involved. Sexless cheating equals no harm done. But would that little fact really make it better? Would it make the betrayal hurt any less?

Emotional affairs or sexless cheating is seen by many as an insignificant fluke in a relationship. But aren’t emotional relationships the precursor to sexual relationships?

It’s usually suspicious for a married person, a married man in particular, to create a friendship with someone of the opposite sex. It is because developing relationships with people can lead to something else, such as sexless cheating, especially when you become intimate with that person emotionally. Sharing your thoughts and feelings, your secrets, your problems, your goals and aspirations in life – these things create a bond with the other person, and before you know it, you develop feelings for him or her. Maybe even to the point where your sexless cheating turns into physical intimacy.

Many clients have said that sexless cheating and emotional betrayals are more difficult to get over than physical ones. Why do think that is? A lot of them have said that getting physically attracted and tempted by someone else is easier to accept compared to knowing that their spouse has fallen in love with another person.

Knowing for a fact that your spouse has feelings for someone else other than you is more painful, which only goes to show how sexless cheating is more harmful.