When emotional intimacy, investment, or priority shifts to someone outside the relationship—whether or not there's physical involvement—it violates the exclusivity most partnerships assume and can damage trust as profoundly as sexual infidelity. The harm lies in the breach of the primary bond, not in the absence of sex.
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