I found this piece by Jeff Herring last year. Now Beliefnet has made it into a nice gallery for the Emotional Affairs Resource Page. To get to The 10 Red Flags of an Emotional Affair, click here. It begins ….
Married people or people in serious relationships aren’t immune from the human need for close, meaningful friendships. But sometimes, especially when those friendships are with people of the opposite sex, those relationships feel more like intimate companionship than bosom buddy-hood. If left unchecked, such relationships can evolve what is known as “emotional affairs.”
In this gallery, syndicated relationships columnist Jeff Herring identifies 10 “red flags” that signal when a relationship is leaving “just friends” territory and veering into uncharted waters.