Another area that the two sexes seem to differ greatly is reactions to sexual and emotional infidelity.

But it sounded like the right response to her confession of emotional infidelity.

Women, on the other hand, might be more upset by their lover's emotional infidelity, because it threatens those resources she needs for her children.

The participants were presented with four dilemmas concerning a partner's emotional and sexual infidelity over the Internet.

Women on the other hand expressed more problems with emotional infidelity over the Internet than did men.

Women, however, view a former partner scenario as the most distressing option for both sexual and emotional infidelity.

The results suggest that, across cultures, women find emotional infidelity more upsetting than sexual infidelity.

The father, a decent, ruefully ironic man, remains devoted to his wife despite her emotional infidelity.