What You Can Do When Dealing with Emotional Infidelity

You should never really believe your partner when he or she says “we’re just friends,” especially when your instincts tell you otherwise.

Emotional infidelity usually involve two people who make emotional connections with one another, mostly in situations where two people are put together to work for a common goal.

Read on to learn some useful ways in handling a situation where your partner becomes involved in emotional infidelity.

1. Steel yourself for all the drama that will surely come your way. Emotional infidelity is full of it.

2. Avoid having conversations about the third person or their relationship to come between you and your partner.

3. Prepare yourself to discover little things about their relationship that will probably hurt the most, like pet names or love letters they’ve given each other.

4. Never believe that your partner’s emotional infidelity actually began because of love. It is his or her need to feel wanted and longed for by another person that pushes him or her to pursue such a relationship.

5. When he or she says, “I love you but I’m not in love with you”, you can’t really believe it to be true. This is very common with emotional infidelity.

6. Never doubt your ability to love.

7. Stay realistic. Romantic movies and tabloids do not convey real-life scenarios when it comes to love.

8. Stay strong, and do not make promises you can’t keep.

9. Let him or her know that you want to be in a relationship with a mature person.

10. Let your partner know that he needs to become an adult before entering in a relationship, especially if it’s with you.

11. Let your partner know that you don’t need him or her to feel sorry for you — that you don’t need anything from him or her.

12. Don’t be surprised when his or her feelings for the other person grow faint.

13. Encourage him or her to face the reality of his emotional infidelity and the status of your relationship.

14. Let your partner take care of himself. You are not his or her mother.

15. Ask yourself if this relationship is really what you want to have in your future.

16. Don’t ever weigh yourself against the other person. There is no comparison. He or she is not better than you, in any way.

17. Keep a level head in dealing with emotional infidelity. Remind yourself to make sound decisions that aren’t made in anger.

18. Confront your partner with questions that will make him deal with the issues you are facing, like:

• Are your feelings for this other person real?
• Do you really think it will last?
• Are you just doing this to cause more drama in your life?