Have you ever found yourself in a relationship where the other person, while not having a physical affair, had an outside relationship that seemed to poison yours? Or maybe it was you with the outside relationship, and you didn't understand what the big deal was. If you're not having sex with someone else, why should it matter?
For most people, infidelity is the act of being unfaithful in a sexual manner. While this idea used to be primarily reserved for married persons, a majority of people today accept that it applies to anyone in a committed relationship engaging in sexual activity outside of that relationship. Therefore, even though this article will refer to "extramarital" relationships, this problem can occur in any committed relationship.
David Moultrup, the author of the book 'Husbands, Wives & Lovers', defines infidelity as "a relationship between a person and someone other than (their) spouse (or lover) that has an impact on the level of intimacy, emotional distance and overall dynamic balance in the marriage." (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_affair) Note that this definition makes no mention of an outside, physical relationship.
But when the relationship defined above, between a person and someone other than that person's spouse or lover, is not physical, can it still be infidelity? Yes. This is known as emotional infidelity.
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