Emotional Cheating
From the outside, it may look as though nothing significant has happened. There has been no physical affair. No dramatic confession. No obvious betrayal. Yet the injured partner often senses that something important has changed.
From the outside, it may look as though nothing significant has happened. There has been no physical affair. No dramatic confession. No obvious betrayal. Yet the injured partner often senses that something important has changed.
Many of the couples who sit in my therapy room today are navigating challenges that simply did not exist ten years ago.
Modern relationships require negotiation in ways previous generations may never have had to articulate so explicitly. Conversations around exclusivity, autonomy, emotional labour, friendship boundaries, finances, intimacy, digital behaviour and future expectations can no longer simply be presumed.