What is emotional infidelity in a marriage?

Emotional infidelity: Emotional infidelity is when you have an emotionally intimate and intense relationship with someone outside your marriage -- and keep it secret from your spouse. Having sex isn't necessarily involved. But your emotional engagement shifts from your marriage to your involvement with this other person. It's longer lasting than a "1 night stand, " and can endanger the trust in your marriage.

Emotional Infidelity: Usually involves an intense emotional connection to someone other than your spouse that includes sexual fantasy but as of yet has not been acted on and is kept secret from one's spouse. Dangerous behavior as it usually undoes closeness in a marriage. Best.