This episode talks about the growing concern of emotional cheating in modern relationships, outlining its characteristics, progression, and impact. 

It differentiates emotional infidelity from platonic friendships, highlighting elements like secretive communication and emotional prioritization of someone other than one's partner. 

Help identifies vulnerability factors, behavioral shifts, and emotional transfer milestones that lead to the erosion of trust and intimacy. 

Finally, we offer a recovery roadmap, including crisis management, root cause analysis, intimacy restoration, and strategies for affair-proofing future relationships, while emphasizing the need for courageous vulnerability.