Emotional Affair Edit Meaning

1.

just like any other affair, but with no boning. where you have mutual feelings for someone NOT your significant otherbut you never hook up.

John: we had a total emotional affair.

Grace: wtf?

John: I was emotionally cheating on Heather with you.

See affair, cheating, lover, boning, significant other

2.

A pop psychology term which instills a sense of impropriety when describing Platonic and courtly love (and other forms of intimate non-sexual association). Since the relationships it defines are by definition chaste, its use is misleading and is often used manipulatively.

You call it coffee with a college professor, I call it an emotional affair.

See platonic, affair, manipulation, insecure, psychobabble