Do you consider emotional affairs as still cheating?

[Anonymous]

For the past 6 months my partner has been having an emotional affair with another married female.
Both my husband and this other woman have been friends for approximately 10 years now so their friendship never concerned me until he started to receive text messages at odd hours and would hide who his talking too etc, they both went as far as unfriend each other on social media to appear not to be having contact with each other, I thought it was weird that they were going to such extreme measures to act like they haven’t been in contact when they are suppose to be friends. One night he received a text from this woman saying she misses him etc, my husband was asleep so I looked and found a whole lot of calling each other baby etc in the morning I confronted my husband and he said she was going through a hard time and admitted they were having a emotional affair but doesn’t see it as cheating. I feel betrayed that he has been lying and turning to her for emotional sort and being her emotional support. My husband says I am over reacting and he hasn’t cheated. Am I over reacting?

[FilmGuy93]

Emotional affairs are absolutely cheating. In some ways, they are even worse than physical cheating.

[LazerBean]

I see it is cheating, even though it is not technically cheating. If cheating is the house itself, emotional affairs are the doorway.

[Berethor]

Physical cheating is much worse as far as most men are concerned, but it no nice what he did.

[Noodle_fan]

it is cheating , only politician would say otherwise

i read from some women here they say emotional affair is actually even worse , than physical one

[Oldschool1981]

I would much prefer my wife to have a physical affair instead of emotional.

[Brando10222]

He's cheating on you. There's nothing called emotional affair.