Emotional infidelity. This is the topic that comes up in my line of business
all the time.
My name is Coach Natalie and I'm a relationship coach and I've dedicated my
life toward helping couples reconnect rebuild and strengthen their
relationship so that they can stay HAPPILY COMMITTED. HAPPILY COMMITTED is a
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Emotional infidelity - what in the world is it and how does it affect you?
In essence emotional infidelity is when you or your partner builds an emotional
connection with someone who is not you or your partner without you or your
partner knowing about it. A secret emotional bond that you cultivate over a
significant period of time that you hide from your partner. If you feel you need
to hide something if you feel like someone is up to something chances are
it falls in the bucket of emotional infidelity. If you are keeping secrets
from your spouse, hiding the messages in your phone, if you go out and take off
your wedding ring, if you go out and don't tell anyone that you're married
when someone is flirting with you or trying to spend time with you,
maybe they grab your number, maybe they text you, you still don't tell them that
you're married. All of this are forms of emotional
infidelity. The really tricky thing with infidelity is that its relative. My
definition of infidelity and your definition of infidelity may be
radically different things, and so it's so important for the sake of you, your
confidence, your self-esteem and for the health of your relationship that you
narrowly define what infidelity means to you. Outline your boundaries, outline
where you stand where you will push where you will pull and where neither
can take place. What are your negotiables in this relationship and what are your
non-negotiables? For many infidelity is just physical it
means that you must be physically intimate with someone else for it to
qualify as them being unfaithful. For others even having a snapchat streak
with someone without me knowing about it might qualify as infidelity. In this new
tech infused era of social media infidelity has the potential to live
anywhere. You can hide it well you can hide it for a long time you can protect
yourself from ever getting caught. And as you can imagine with social media being
this popular the lines blur very quickly and so this video is an opportunity
where I want to ask you a question - and I want you to share the answer: What does
emotional infidelity mean to you? What does it look like? What does it feel like?
How does it manifest in a relationship? How would you handle emotional
infidelity if it ended up inside of your relationship? Would you stick around?
Would you not? Would it violate a boundary? Does it not? Fill us in! We'd
love to hear what your thoughts are and your experience with emotional
infidelity is. Leave a comment under this video, share your experience with us,
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