The Sad Ways Men Rationalize Emotional Cheating

While I have been with taken men before and had the time of my life, do I still have the license to call a spade a spade? Of course!

While some taken men mistakenly fall into an emotional attachment with another woman over a period of time, others intentionally choose to play both sides of the game by using his wife or girlfriend for his sexual, romantic, and familial needs and the mistress, or the other woman, for his emotional ones.

And yes ladies, from personal experience men do make the mistake of developing an emotional connection with a woman who isn’t their partner. It can be as simple as innocently venting about a problem at home, work, or in his personal life that he doesn’t feel comfortable sharing with you.

I can preemptively read your mind and tell you are asking yourself the following questions:

“Well, why wouldn’t he share this with me? Why can’t my man be vulnerable with me?”

Sigh.

Unfortunately, many women make everything men do about them. Some wives and girlfriends have a difficult time separate themselves from the unbiased, loving, no-judgment intimacy through emotional connection that so many men are void of in their lives. Now on the flip side, maybe you are a great listener and you will love your man through any…