Emotional Infidelity: You Will Feel Attracted To People Besides Your Partner

So, what will you do?

Kris Gage
16 min readFeb 3, 2019
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What’s emotional infidelity?

Loosely:

“Intimacy with someone besides our partner that’s emotional, not physical.”

It happens to many people, and in a world of hyper-communication and connectivity, it’s becoming an increasingly big topic. So, what do we do?

Let’s take this in two parts…

  • Part I: Attraction
  • Part II: What To Do With It

— PART I: ATTRACTION —

What it is, its power, and limitations.

Attraction sneaks up on us

Love is a choice, but attraction may not be.

It’s just there to navigate, leaving many flailing and trying to deny our basic humanness, like “I didn’t ask for this!”, at a loss as to how to safely indulge…

Attraction feels really good

Like most people, I have enjoyed the sweet, sodden satisfaction of crushes. I have obsessed over the way they smile, or sit, or stand, or the wrinkled folds in the hips of their jeans when they’ve done both. I’ve…

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Kris Gage
Kris Gage

Written by Kris Gage

Writer — www.krisgage.com reach me at krisgagemedium (at) gmail (dot) com

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