Your Emotional Affair Was a Fantasy, But the Breakup Still Hurts

When the reality of your relationship lives in your head

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I was working with a man who’d just ended a two-year emotional affair.

His emotional “affairee” (my word for person-you-were-with-but-not-really-with) had moved away and they’d agreed to cut all ties.