Emotional infidelity versus physical infidelity… which is worse or are they equally horrific? My boyfriend and I broke up ten days before Christmas. I left him. I was unhappy and instead of realizing all the other things going on in my life were contributing to my dissatisfaction I dumped it all on him. Mistake. I admit that and when he asked me back three weeks later I willingly returned to his arms. Then he found out I had emailed an ex while we were split up. This new discovery caused him to doubt all the love I was casting upon him. I emailed the ex because before he and I were lovers, we were friends. We were friends for two and a half years in fact and when I emailed him, I emailed my ex-friend, NOT my ex-boyfriend. This is not to say that I haven’t emailed him as an ex-boyfriend before. I would ever get back with him, and I would ever physically cheat on my boyfriend, but when is it cheating? I was emotionally attached for a while, and still miss him as a friend. Am I in the wrong here? I consider emotional infidelity a deep connection between two people that one is still exploring despite being in a relationship. I will reiterate that I was not doing that, but the fact that he believes that I was… Which is worse?