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I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years now, and I do really love him a lot. We have our arguments but I feel safe with him.

The problem is, I have an intense crush on my coworker. I can’t stop thinking about him. He’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and I look forward to seeing him at work. We don’t talk at all, and hardly know each other outside of cordialities here and there...

We just stare at each other. I can’t seem to stop, even though I know I shouldn’t. I just always find myself looking at him and he looks back. It’s really intense, like we’re having a conversation with our eyes. We both know it’s going on too, which makes rare occasions when we’re making small talk kind of awkward (feels like sexual tension).

I’m having trouble figuring out if this is emotional cheating, because we don’t talk at all. I haven’t disclosed anything to him, I don’t tell him secrets. But the staring thing... and the fact that he occupies like 80% of my thoughts every day..

What do you think?

A study regarding cheating partners revealed that men were more likely to forgive their partners if they fell in love with another, but will find it hard to forgive them for having sex with someone else.

Whereas women were more likely to forgive their partners if they had sex with someone else, but less likely to forgive them for falling in love.

I realise that this is a huge generalisation over one study.

But popular belief (again huge generalisation) is that men can detach sex from emotions, so why are they less likely to forgive sex, if some men see sex as just that, sex?

And women, IN GENERAL, are seen to be more affectionate and emotional, so the study results are consensus to the female stereotype, as they are less likely to forgive their partner for falling in love with another person.

What are your thoughts?