The Problem Of Emotional Infidelity

Today's society appears to be gradually having a worrying effect on our marriages

. We unfortunately take a lot of these lightly. When we don't handle these things, our marriages slowly but surely fall prey to them. What we would do here's to bring up one such issue so that we can become aware of it.

Everybody knows that there are problems that face marriages. One thing that we might not want to admit is that we bring a lot of these issues on ourselves. One of the issues we would be looking at is emotional infidelity. This is something that lot's of us may smile at. Many of us may claim not to fully understand what emotional infidelity is so we would attempt to explain what it is.

Emotional infidelity is an emotional intimacy with an individual other than your partner. Words are usually the vehicle by which emotional infidelity is established. It is for this reason that physical intimacy does not have to be involved. This leads us to a serious matter I want us to examine.

If asked, many of us may deny being guilty of emotional infidelity so I would approach this from a different angle. The way we would be approaching this would be to ask ourselves certain questions. Your answers to these questions would determine your guilt or not.

Do you have a Facebook account? If you are not on Facebook, are you on some other social network? This is the first question. I am assuming your response to the above was yes. This leads us to the followup question.

Do you spend a lot of time on these networks?

It's really interesting to learn that Facebook users spend a total of about 700 billion minutes on the network every month. This is pretty disturbing. These minutes we're made to understand come from time spent before on face to face relationships and interactions. Put this in context and you would understand why it's troubling. Let us go on to the next question.

Just consider it and make us know who you spend all of your time on the social network with?

You surely can't say that you spend all that time with your spouse. That can only be possible if your partner lives in a different city from you. In many cases, people have online friends that they spend time with.

As if the issue of spending so much time chatting online is not bad enough, we now include video chat which actually raises the possibility of emotional infidelity. Folks now do video chat and strip for themselves. Would you think a married person who engages in such a practice with an individual other than his or her spouse is guilty or not? It is simply because there's no physical intimacy that it is named emotional infidelity.

There actually is a lot to be done to correct this, which task might fall to just you. Some of you may not have the benefit of the assistance of your spouses so you may have to find how to save your marriage alone:

- Make quality time for your partner

- Curtail the length of time spent on social media sites

- Carefully monitor the content of your communication on social media networks

- Give your partner something powerful enough to draw them away from the social media networks

- Let your spouse have your total attention

Look at this like a war that you must win to save your marriage.

by: Deborah Lindstrom

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