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I am married, happily; however, for about 6 months before my wedding my fiancé was living at home while I was going to college 4 hours away. During that period I started to realize that most of my friends were no longer at school with me because they had graduated, transferred, dropped out, etc. There was one very close friend of mine who was still in school with me, and shortly after being dumped by the guy she thought she was going to marry, she began realizing the same thing. Consequently we began spending a lot of time together. I already loved her in a friendly, non-romantic sense before any of this happened, but with neither of us having a significant other (at least not close by) and fewer friends surrounding us, it began to feel more like a traditional "couple" relationship. I started noticing how good her hair looked, how I enjoyed the smell of her when she was near me, and how good it felt when I made her laugh. My love for her changed but I have never, and will never, act on it as long as I am married. I never told either woman that I love this girl, but I did let my wife know that if we hadn't gotten married for some reason I would have pursued the other girl. Does my emotional attachment to this other woman count as cheating on my wife or is it just my imagination wondering what could have been?