subject: Can My Wife be Cheating Even if She Isn't Having Sex with Another Man? [print this page] Can My Wife be Cheating Even if She Isn't Having Sex with Another Man?
Sex and cheating do not always go hand in hand. There is more than one way for wives to cheat on their husbands. Emotional cheating happens when your wife is withdrawing from you on an emotional level while bonding with another man.
Emotional cheating can have devastating consequences on a marriage if it isn't addressed quickly and effectively. So the short answer to the question: "can my wife be cheating even if she isn't having sex with another man?" is yes. But, that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
How Many Women Cheat?
Once upon a time, a cheating wife was a rare bird indeed. It could be that the stigma associated with cheating was a substantial deterrent. Or it may have been the fact that some cultures punished women harshly for adultery. The fact remains that women today are having affairs much more than at any other time in history.
Some blame media for this. Others blame religion (more specifically, lack thereof). But the real answer probably lies in the fact that women today have more OPPORTUNITY than ever before to cheat. We are facing, perhaps for the first time in history, a period where women actually hold equal positions to men in the workplace and in society.
The more exposure women have to other men in positions where they are equal with, and sometimes in authority over, men, the more often we'll see women having affairs.
So How do Women Cheat without Sex?
For many people sex outside of the marriage is all that cheating is about. Unfortunately, there's one kind of cheating that is far more harmful to your state of wedded bliss. That would be an emotional affair.
Women often have emotional affairs because they feel unwanted, unneeded, and even UNAPPRECIATED at home. Some other man comes along and makes her feel like the best thing since, wellchocolate. She's putty in his hands from that moment on.
So, why no sex?
She still loves you. At this point in the "other" relationship she's torn between the two of you. She loves you and the home you have together. But, the other man is meeting needs that she feels you aren't meeting.
That's how is all gets started.
The problem is that this isn't usually where the story ends.
As things progress between your wife and this other man she will begin to withdraw from you and turn to the other man more and more for support. This relationship will blossom while your marriage stagnates. The attraction between your wife and this other man will grow. Now is the time when you need to take ACTION to save your marriage so that you're not stuck wondering how to get your ex back somewhere down the road.
In time, it is likely that they will make the move into physical cheating. But that isn't where the devastation to your marriage occurs. It happens when she turns away from you for emotional support and to this other man. The more she grows to depend on him for emotional fulfillment, the greater the risk to your marriage will be.
