
Before recent events, I had only witnessed one occurrence of "emotional cheating" in my life and that was several years ago when my aunt was carrying on what my mom called an "emotional affair" with her kids' little league coach and her former classmate. Before then, I never even knew such an affair existed. I had always thought that cheating was purely physical. Boy, was I proven wrong.
Recently, I introduced two of my best friends. One, a single man in his early twenties, with wishes to start a life in the military - the other a young woman in her early twenties with wishes to move to a bigger city and pursue her dream of art. The catch to this: she was in a relationship with a soldier who was stationed 2,000 miles away.
Over the months after I introduced them, they became significantly closer, even going so far as to exclude me from group outings, movie dates, lunch dates, and whatever else. When I got excluded, they began doing more intimate things: seeing movies as a couple, going to lunch as a couple, having dinner with each others' families, and even going so far as to spend the night at one another's house. She began to confide in him about her relationship and her overprotective boyfriend, but who wouldn't be if their girlfriend was cavorting around town with a man he didn't know, who was basically serving as a replacement for the man who was actually her boyfriend? More Here...