Extramartial Affairs - Why They Are Seldom About Sex
When your husband or wife ends up having an extramarital affair, we all instantly focus our mind on the actual physical act of them having sex with someone else.
The image of your spouse engaging in red hot sex with someone else rips your heart out with anger.
You will likely experience two kinds of intense emotions when you find out your other half is having an affair.
You end up with feelings of incredible despair and sadness, when you keep asking yourself "why did this happen"; alternated by incredible feelings of anger and rage at the fact that it did happen.
Once you get over the initial shock, most of us end up focusing on the sexual act only and are blind to the emotional implications and reasons of why the affair happened.
It is a very tough pill to swallow. I've been there...so I know!
Your mind starts racing around to figure out how it happened. Was I not good enough in bed? Was he or she just drunk and had little self control? Is my spouse just weak minded?
The reality is that while your mind's racing around frantically focusing on the sex, affairs usually happen because of needs not being met other than sex.
That doesn't mean you should start to blame yourself. But you do need to look deeper into the emotional reasons for which your partner many have strayed.
It is rarely just lust that makes your husband or wife seek out intimacy in the arms of another. Most affairs happen as a result of emotional needs not being met in one's current relationship, which eventually culminate in the physical act of sex.
But it takes a lot of courage to push your overwhelming feelings of hurt and betrayal on the back burner and to try and look at your relationship as a whole and not just your partner sleeping with someone else.
If you have been cheated on, there are two ways that we deal with it. Some will instantly call it a day and some will still want to work it out.
It's funny how things change when affairs actually do take place. You can't imagine how many men and women I've met who without hesitation claim that if their spouse ever cheated they would immediately leave him or her. But when it does actually happen, a lot of them still want to make it work.
It is beyond the scope of this article to delve into the complexity of those of you who want to survive the affair. But I will share my thoughts on how, should you choose to stick it out, can do so by reducing the hurt and uncertainty during the process.
I'll end on this note....and say that while it's only natural for all of us to be completely consumed by the betrayal of the physical part of the affair, it is the emotional side that you really need to look at. But is it easy? Heck no!
Copyright(2007) Tim Denio
Tim Denio has helped hundreds of men and women uncover the truth about infidelity in their relationship. To learn proven shortcuts to find out if your spouse is cheating on
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