The Difference between Physical and Emotional Cheating
So many men get caught in an office fling. They spend so much time together feelings develop. But what if the affair never turns physical? What if they only spend time together and share an emotional bond. Is that cheating too? Tell us what you think.










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These woman need to take a closer look at themselves.
What makes them "want to be with a man that is not available to them". Make a choice for yourself and find within you what makes you happy and then these men will be so far off the radar and you will find yourself manifesting nothing more but true love and acceptance.
Perhaps every woman or girl here should look up THETA HEALING and consider investing some time and money on themselves so that their future is full of unconditional love for themselves which in turn will distribute likewise to others and relationships.
Best of luck!!
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Posted by: VINCENT NDED | March 30, 2008 11:24 PM
Hi Tyra, My name is samantha i'm in the same sitution but its kind of twisted aparently he was dating somone on and off before he meet me but they never seen each other so he says and im now pregnant by him and he constintly wants to keep in contact with her and she is the main reason why we are having problems and the messed up part about it is i am in love with this man he is my heart but he keeps lying and saying he told her not call him but he is calling her and storing her number in his phone under another name like i am stupid.
Posted by: Samantha | March 19, 2008 9:57 PM
Hey Tyra! Im 18 And Some People Ive Asked The Question To Say There Diffrent But I Believe There The Same And Ive Been Cheated On,Used And Emotionally Abused To Many Times Not Im With The Love Of My Life, I Plan On Marrying Her But There's Some Things That I Dont Know What To Do I Mean She Has Hurt Me To About 4 Times but I Love Her Too Much To Leave Her, I Love Her To Much To Say 'Were Done, Its Over Between Us" But Alot Of Times She Doesnt Get It Through Her Head How Much i Love Her I Feel Like She Thinks She Can Do Whatever Tell Me What She's Done And Ill Stay With Her I Dont Know What To Do Tyra, SOS..PLease Help Me!
Posted by: Shawn | February 20, 2008 10:24 AM
Hi Tyra, Claire here. im 17 and in my opinion, emotional and physical cheating are the same. emotional is just a whole lot worse!!! it hurts alot more too cos you love your partner and then they'll flirt or get close to another person and there you are, and you're the one he or she is supposed to be close to and the one he or she is supposed to flirt with! not someone else! and neither one should be acceptable. and they should know that if they truly love you. thanks for the great show!!!
Posted by: Claire | February 1, 2008 8:33 AM
Hello Tyra! Just reading all the comments on this emotional or physical relationship In my opinion as long as thres no physcial involvement thats not cheating you can always hve a emotional relationship with male or female specially like your best friend... that knows everything bout you and you know everything about them. right now Im int hat situation that I'm married but my best frienfd is male and he will tell me verything whtas going on sometimes we spent more time together than with my husband we have that connection . So Is that cheating?
Posted by: Asian Perswaysion | January 11, 2008 5:16 AM
Hey Tyra! Im shannon, im nearly 16 years old! Im a huge fan of your show! Anyway, my opinion, even though both kinds of cheating hurt really really badly, i think emotional cheating is worse. Mainly because if you've been cheated on physically, and if it is only a physical attraction, then your man, or woman will come home to you at night because of an emotional bond, and physical. But if it's an emotional bond type of cheating, then he, or she, will be thinking about the other person while still in the same cheating relationship.
Posted by: Shannon | January 2, 2008 1:49 AM
Hey Tyra,
It's me again. Well I'm just 14 but I know a lot about helping others with their problems. I ben doing it ever since 5th grade n now i in 8th n i learned a lot. But coming down to physical and emotional cheating it's basically the same. Some might say it's different but it really da same. Once u cheat the outcome is the same so no reason say "I didn't cheat" wen u did. Wast of ur time lying. Y do ppl cheat? I don't kno. Instead of cheating they need 2 break up wit da person n do wat they want 2 do. Dat way no1 gets hurt. Being truthful is the best thing. No1 gets hurt. Every1 leaves happy most of da time. It's better than having it go 'round n ur family know n talk bout u. I mean they still will bout sumthing but it will be 1 less.
*Patrice a.k.a. Trice/Mz.Brown
P.S.Hope u have a HAPPY NEW YEARS and tell ur mom i say hi! Luv ya!
Posted by: Patrice | December 31, 2007 10:21 AM
Well I'm in a relationship with a man that love's the party life. I do to but I'm only 20 so what can I really do?But he feels the need all the time that we get in to an arguement he feel the need to call on one his female friends. To me thats not cool to do because if it was the women that call on male friends that she may have then It would be a problem.There shouldn't be a problem talking to ur mate about the problem and if it is then you really think about staying in a relationship that does have conversation or trust.
Posted by: Synthia | December 27, 2007 5:50 PM
okay so me and this guy are basically together,
exept he has a girlfriend.
they've been together for five years, and she is totally in love with him, but he quit having feelings for her a year ago. He says he doesn't want to break her heart, because last time he tried to breakup with her she went insane and tried to kill herself.
I really like him but I don't think he will ever breakup with her, and even if he did, I wouldn't want him to do the same thing to me in the future
Posted by: Morgan | December 26, 2007 7:44 AM
Tyra,
I fell that a relationship even though it may not be physical is wrong if your partner does not know the person.Some people may read anothers signals wrong.It may be just a listening ear as in my case where my husband was trying to be helpful to someone,the person fell for him.They crossed the line and had casual sex that resulted in a baby.I think that if you are in a relationship that is
Posted by: Carmen | December 18, 2007 2:50 PM
hey tyra wats up !! :D
i think that a person could possibly cheat on their partner emontionaly and physically there is no doubt about that because if u think about it a person could be spending time with someone and thinking about wat they want to do with that person and it woudl turn into emotional cheating and then gradually physical it's never happened to me but unfortunately some of my friends,
Posted by: katie | December 17, 2007 9:41 AM
Even if the emotional connection doesn't turn physical, it still damages a current relationship. Yes I believe it is still cheating, because when you're in a relationship, you should only feel emotionally close to the one you're with. If you don't have that bond between the person you're with, then why bother being with that person.
My husband is in the military, he's enlisted and he has an emotional bond with a female officer. At first I thought she was nice, as times passed, my husband would constantly talk about her. What would really bother me, is when i'd talk about my day with our son, he'd all of a sudden change the subject about this female officer. Over time, he would always talk about her. After work, she would call him, about personal things not related to work. Or he would call her back and speak about personal relationship things, he said it was strictly advice. It got to the point where, since being in the same office, daily they'd talk about her relationship and our relationship.
She is now on deployment, although she will be back in the area soon. Before she left, she was my husbands boss, so he would have to always report to her. Once she went on deployment, he was assigned another boss. So he didn't have to report to her, while she was on deployment and there was no reason for him to contact her for anything work related. Even though being on deployment, they have not stopped keeping in touch. He has claimed that she contacts him for updates in the shop, but she has other contacts in the shop, non-enlisted to contact about work. Yes, this out of work, calls and online e-mails isn't supposed to happen. That doesn't stop them though.
So this emotional bond between them seems to continue. It has just made things between our relationship difficult to deal with.
Posted by: Michiko | December 16, 2007 2:01 AM
hi tyra its thembi again from south africa im at work at this moment the time is 05:19 in the morning i've working since yesterday from 18:15 every day i pray for a better life and some how i know i will find if im not sure if u have done an interview with ne-yo yet as we are behide schedule in SA if you do have an interview with him tell him im his biggest fan i wish to marry him one day and i love you girl see u late
Posted by: thembi | December 14, 2007 7:28 PM
I think that its all the same. I would hate it if my man had an "emotional" connection with another woman, because if he cant confide in me and have that same connection then there is no connection between us.And if there is no connection then its not real. So ladies there is definately something really wrong if your man can go to another woman and talk to her emotionaly. I say find out whats really going on behind the "office doors", because it soon maybe more then "office meetings" if you know what i mean
Posted by: Amanda | December 14, 2007 12:46 PM
My boyfriend of 1 1/2 years. We have been on and off and he's been talking to this one girl ever since we've been goig out i barely found that out like one month ago. We have a baby boy. But he always calls her and he tells me that he wont stop talking to her and that hurts me. So what i think is that emotionaly cheating is worse than phisacly.
Posted by: maria | December 7, 2007 10:00 PM
Hi Tyra, girl I watched your show last night. It was about the guys cheating. Let me tell you something that I have learned about a man, through my experience. The man that I'm with is a wonderful man. You know how us women always say that we want our man to tell us what's going on and that they can tell us anything. Well, let me tell you, a woman really doesn't want to know what a man really thinks. I have man that tells me everything (I think). At least that way we can figure out a way to solve the problem before it even starts. I hate for him to be talking about another woman, but I told him to tell me everything. It hurts like hell sometimes , but that's what I asked for. He did explain one important thing about men that i never realized. That is, it's in a man to cheat or to lust for another woman. If you think back, in the bible days men had more than one woman. Anyway, He told me that the only way he knew to control it was to pray about it. I truley believe that that's the only way a man is not going to lust or have the craving to be with another woman. My advice for women is to be with who makes you comfortable, don't go out looking for negative things in your man. Cause you are not going to like what you find. I tell my man quick, if you are seeing other women I don't want to know them, just make sure they know me, because when I'm on the seen they better know when to back off and not to be in his face, and he better not bring anything home to me. We are best friends and have been together for almost 9 years.
Posted by: Angel | December 6, 2007 7:31 AM
Hi I have been with my boyfriend going on 2 years and during our relationship we have broken up alot and evry time we brake up he runs to his new baby moma that he just had twins by. He got her preagnant after we was broken up for 9 days but I really think he was sleepen with her before we broke up and I just don't really know how to deal with it and on top of that he has two other children, so now he has to work two low paying job to make ends meet and I really don't see us ahven a good life together, and also we just got married and I don't know if it was the right step.
Posted by: Natasha | December 5, 2007 8:35 PM
Tyra,
My boyfriend of two years is a great person, but I think he is cheating on me now. He gets phone calls from girls that are just "FRIENDS" but when they call he wont answer "because of the respect he has for me" I think thats BULL because if it was so much respect he would not have them call. We broke up and got back together and he told me they would stop calling. I can say they have, only this one girl has not and now when she calls I'll go to get the phone and he will yell and push me out of the way. He says its because I always snoop. I wouldn't snoop if he didn't give me a reason. Tyra what do I do. Stop snooping and let it go or what....
Posted by: Megan Love | December 4, 2007 10:49 AM
Emotional cheating can be just as bad and hurtful as physical cheating. I think in some circumstances it could be even more hurtful. I know if I found that my man was emotionally connected with another woman, I'd be just as heart broken as I would be if he cheated physically. Cheating is cheating nomatter what form it takes...and cheating wrong.
Posted by: Rachel | November 29, 2007 10:13 PM
i think their is a huge differnce between physical and emotional cheating. woman somtimes i think expect too much from thier significant other and the truth of the matter is that we cannot get everything we need from just that one person. Infedelity is NO. but if a person is to grow spiritually and emotionally they may need some outside counsel. think about it. it can be healthy for a relationship but don't bring it to the point where everthing is brought to the outside perspective. boundaries must be set because at the end of the day it's really just between u and your partner
Posted by: Kasi | November 29, 2007 9:24 AM
BOTH ARE WRONG..
Posted by: Tracey | November 28, 2007 3:24 PM
i feel if a relationship is healthy there will be no need for a person to be confiding with another person about anything,so obviously if a person, and yes its emotionally cheating, is confiding with another person, who do we blame, the person doing the confiding should try to talk with their mate and solve needed issues.this kind of relationship shows there is a lack of communication.
Posted by: donna e. | November 28, 2007 3:12 PM
My boyfriend is emotionally cheating on me. His ex is everything to him. He hasn't been with her for years but he still loves her. Like not too long ago I found a picture of them together happy smiling in a video game box here in OUR apartment! He swears it was just in a jacket that he brought from his dads. But since we have been together he's worn that jacket. We have a 9 month old daughter and another daughter due in Feb on v-day. I am so insecure I catch myself looking at his myspace and going to her page and looking at her pictures. I check his emails and facebook even at times. He swears he doesn't still have feelings about her. But we've actually talked about if he could have any girl in the world who it would be...and its her. He's explained to me how cute she is. his words were oh shes just so cute like omg. UGH! Ever since I found the picture he doesn't talk about her but I constantly bring her up and I can't stop. I feel like I'm fat and ugly and like he doesn't really wanna be with me that he is only with me cuz he can't have her. I think with time it'll get better though. It has to.
Posted by: Kimi | November 28, 2007 10:47 AM
Emotionally cheating is just as bad as physically cheating. The relationship is harder to cut off when emotions are involved. I found myself emotionally cheating on my boyfriend. No it was not intentionally. The phone calls with the other guy began to pick up and e-mails back an forth became consistent and I found myself liking the guy. However, forgiveness is possible in any relationship if both parties take responsibility and be honest. Because this happened, my boyfriend and I were able to work through our issues and he forgave me.
Posted by: Michelle | November 28, 2007 10:27 AM