THE DEFINITON OF EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR.

According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia, the definition of Extramarital Affair are relationships outside of marriage where an illicit romantic or sexual relationship or a romantic friendship or passionate attachment occur.

An extramarital affair that continues in one form or another for years, even as one of the partners to that affair passes through marriage, divorce and remarriage, could be considered the primary relationship and the marriages secondary to it.

Beside this, according to counselor Janis Abrahams Spring, author of "After the Affair", the definition of extramarital affair is: Infidelity, Adultery and Extramarital sex, it is relating to sexual intercourse with someone other than one's spouse, or involving a married person and another person who is not their marriage partner.

By the way, according Dr Reena Sommer, author of "The Anatomy of an Affair", she had defined extramarital affair has broadened to include the emotional connections that develop between two people outside of a marriage. Extramarital affair has been reclassified to include not only the physically affair but, also the emotional affair. The "emotional affair" is becoming more common among people who feel a sense of emptiness and lack of fulfillment in their current relationship or marriage.

As a conclusion by our group, we are agree the above definitions about exrtramarital affair, and we are more consider to accept extramarital affair has broadened to include the emotional connections develop between two people outside of a marriage. We believed that intense emotional bonding has always been a part of extramarital love affairs. An extramarital affairs always start with emotional connection and bonding before having a physical affair. An emotional affair can be lead to a physical affair. If our emotional involved and bonding with someone other than our spouse, and our spouse is not longer the first important person in any personal relationship in our life this is mean we are actually having an extramarital love affair.


Below are some questions prepared by our group members to help us assess ourselves, did we started having connect with someone emotionally than physically? Always to be remember, an emotional affair can be lead to a physical affair, emotional cheating is consider to be infidelity, the end of a result of an extramarital affair definition is paying more attention to someone other than their marriage partner, although there is no actual physical contact, it is still considered cheating and affair.


Question to Assess yourself:
1. Did you always sharing your feeling to someone other than your spouse?

2. Did you always care about someone how is he/she assessing you other than your spouse?

3. Did you always care about someone advisory other than your spouse?

4. Did you always show your caring to someone other than your spouse?

5. Did you always looking to meet or hear from someone other than your spouse?

6. Did you always spending as much time to someone other than your spouse?


If you are having five of the situations from the above questions, you are considered cheating or having affair. We are advise you to look for a counselor in your marriage.



(Prepared by: Annisa Kharmi and NG)