no emotional cheating equivalent to a one night stand. This type of scenario entails a more calculated and elaborate approach to keep a secret.
Emotional cheating is usually harder to spot. A continuous physical affair usually involves texts, cheesy dick pics, and him dramatically angling his body away from you every time he looks at his phone as if he’s the Donald Trump Jr. of sexual sneakiness. Emotional cheating can be your boyfriend religiously watching his ex’s Insta stories or always getting lunch with the same coworker he slowly developed a catastrophically massive crush on.
So which do you feel is a more devastating breach of the “relational contract”? Ultimately, relationships are about commitment, and if this can’t be done then people should reevaluate their circumstance. Hurt feelings, angst, and resentment are slow killers. They eat away at relationships, and quite frankly whether it be emotional or physical cheating, you are bound to deal with at least one of the 3.
No matter how you get cheated on, it takes work to get it the way you want it to be.