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Can you just be friends with someone you had an affair with?
If you can stay in touch with the other person without secret meetings, private conversations and the other hallmarks of an emotional affair, you might be able to become friends again with time.
Can an affair partner become a friend?
If the two have had a sexual affair, and they are “separating” only because they are married, then they don’t really want a friendship. When people ask me if they can be friends after the affair, they mean can they be platonic friends like any of their other high school/college friends are. No, they can’t.
What happens when a married person has an affair with someone?
The married person pulls further and further away emotionally from their spouse at home. That spouse may recognize this, but dismiss its importance or reason. Affair partners usually overlook obvious flaws and negative qualities about each other.
Should the wayward spouse leave the affair partner?
After all, the affair was a choice that the wayward spouse made and it should be just as easy a choice for the wayward spouse to leave the affair partner. Obviously, we all have choices in life and so we don’t understand why the wayward spouse can’t make the best choice, which is to let go.
Should you keep your affair partner as a friend?
6 reasons not to keep your affair partner as a friend. 1. Your best efforts didn’t keep you out of the affair in the first place. This is not to sound harsh, because I’ve been there too, remember. But it’s a truth worth speaking to. You and I made vows to be faithful and true to our spouses on our wedding day.
Is the affair partner better than the betrayed spouse?
The affair partner can never be better than the betrayed spouse because having an affair with a married person is a fatal flaw. Having an affair with a married person makes the other person 100\% worse than the betrayed spouse. Thus, the wayward spouse doesn’t stay because the other person is better in some way.