You Text Each Other a Lot. Is It an Emotional Affair?
October 21, 2024
Kelly McMasters didn’t expect a response when she messaged her college boyfriend late one night. They hadn’t talked in years. But he wrote back within minutes. There’s one detail that McMasters didn’t disclose: The fact that she was married. And she didn’t tell her husband, or anyone else, that she was corresponding with her ex. The relationship never became sexual. But she had stronger feelings for him than she wanted to admit.
“I knew, on some level, that we were not above board,” says McMasters, 48, a professor and writer in Port Washington, N.Y.
Are you texting and emailing with a friend, or is it a kind of an affair? It can be a slippery slope.
