emotional betrayal vs. physical betrayal
which is worse?
both.
Both are agreeable, and should be encouraged as common practice.
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Doesn't it depend on the views of the person regardless of male or female? Past experiences, pleasures, abuse, family situation, past sexual encounters/relationships, etc...wouldn't that factor in as to what is the most damaging? I'm female and would find emotional betrayal x10 worse than physical. Emotional betrayal means they have gave their very being over to someone else, their feelings, desires, trust. They now trust this person more than you. I can handle a guy giving over his d*ck but not his heart.
shareYes and no - men feel much more threatened by physical betrayal. And I'd feel physical betrayal as much, much worse..In this instance, her emotional betrayal would have been 100x worse had it been combined with physical betrayal..one important thing - as long as neither confesses, the marriage should be strengthened.
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For me physical betrayal is the worst because, not only have they put in jeopardy their relationship for some tail, but if it remains a secret, that person is gambling not only his life but his partner life having maybe gotten some illness from the person he committed adultery with.
In this day and age, where syphilis has made a come back, with AIDS still a death sentence, and that's not even talking about herpes or other sexually transmissible diseases, people that betray secretly their partners are selfish cowards.
Both are pretty much bad ..
Emotional betrayal is by far the worst, as long as the physical betrayal didn't have meaning.
I feel as if most with a deeper level of understanding of what love is would say emotional betrayal is worse, while those who were more simple-minded, would think physical. My opinion.
To those that say, oh if the person goes inside my wife, it's much worse than if she were to be emotionally attached, in my opinion, are the jealous types. Puts sex on a pedestal. If they found out their loved ones were cheating on them, the questions they'd ask are "did you have sex? did you kiss?". They never even ask "do you love him/her? do you love me?"
Love is more than just sex. True love doesn't need sex. True love is being by the side of your wife who is going through cancer, lost all her limbs, and looks like an ugly mess.
I believe going off to a hotel room with a woman/man not your wife/husband is just as bad as going all the way. Now keeping that attachment in your mind is much much much worse. Loving someone that's not your husband/wife is much worse than having a no strings attached encounter with someone.
And to those that say, you need to have feelings to have sex, you're wrong. Dead wrong. You need to expand your mind outside of the little fairytale box that you derived from.
Emotional betrayal is worse, but not by much.
I'm a woman too.
I could be wrong but I think in most cases emotional betrayal will lead to physical betrayal. Once you form a emotional relationship with someone you've already began slipping away from your spouse.
As far as which one is worse. I think they are pretty darn close, being that the first usually leads to the latter.
Well Physical betrayal is worst as one can't control emotions no matter how hard you try...but physical things can be controlled...
And Joanne didn't betray emotionally...in her own words...she just can't unlearn something like that...and as she said..she gave up Alex for Michael...
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If it was a one night stand physical betrayal vs. a longterm emotional betrayal like this film, I would say the emotional would be far worse. I could forgive the former if it was a one time thing (not that I wouldn't be very angry), but I don't think I could forgive the latter.
I find it interesting that studies have shown that women feel more betrayed by the physical and men by the emotional. I've actually had this conversation with large groups of people a few times, and every single woman said that the emotional would be worse and every single guy said the physical. I guess it just depends on who you're talking to!
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I think it should be worse if it was emotional cheating for both males and females. Because it doesn't matter we are male or female we are both humans not animals. We think! We decide, we take steps, we feel. We are complex. Sex isn't complex, emotions are. We are first emotional beings IMHO.
*Someone said here jealousy is stupid and has nothing to do with love. They said parents love their kids and they don't get jealous.*
Well, that is not the same kind of love, kids don't have sex with their parents. I can't even believe I am actually explaining this.
But what I am trying to say is I wouldn't dismiss 'jealousy' it is a human feeling. I would get jealous if my boyfriend spent the whole night talking with an other girl. But the difference is how you act when you are jealous. Feeling jealous and acting jealous are very different things. I would never act like a derailed animal even if I was really jealous.