an affair online

Yes, you should stop wasting time on someone you haven't met. Spend it on your husband. I'm sure you already know you're committing adultery that's why you felt you had the need to ask it here. Come on girl, I'm sure you wouldn't want things the other way around, you know, your husband cheating on you online.

it said in the bible that if you think it then its sin as you already did it in your mind so I think that adultery begins in the mind and heart

An affair online is strictly not an affair. It takes a lot of physical proximity to get involved with a person. If your thoughts are matching with another person online, do get carried away as the true identity of very few people is disclosed in an online presence. Do consider it as a dream only and not a reality unless you have met the person physically after getting introduced online. After that If you get attracted, then it is destined to happen and no one other than God and yourselves can prevent it. Dont feel guilty of any act because, if things had to happen they will happen anyway

I think adultery is worse when there are romantic feelings involved. If you're having an affair online with someone you care for more than your husband, then I think that's adultery. Mostly because if you're thinking about cheating, chances are you're willing to go the next step too, and you're just waiting for the right opportunity to present itself. If this online affair said, "I'm in your town, meet me here..." would you go?

I think it is an emotional affair and IMO that is worse than a physical affair. A physical affair can be a "caught in the moment" thing and is purely physical. An emotional affair is a concious decision to disregard your vows and disrespect your spouse and allow yourself to express feelings for someone else. I would not tolerate an affair of any kind, physical or emotional, in my marriage.

Yes it is. How do you feel about your online affair, is their guilt involved, is it something that you would tell your partner. If you can't tell your partner then it is considered adultery.

It is adultry if you are getting your emotional needs met by someone else. Although there is no physical contact (at least thats what i gathered from what you have said) your mind is straying so it is adultry but not in the physical sense.

I would call it a close friendship....

In the religion aspect or if you have faith in god and marriage( hope so ) I read that even if you just look a person with lustful desire you are committing a sin. That is what the bible said. But why try it when you are happy with your husband and have a happy family. I think it is already adultery much more if you meet him personally.

It is cheating dear. And stop doing it. Be loyal to one and that is your husband.

Yes, I think so! because you are not loyal to your wife, though it is online, but should be considered as the same as actual!

Thought or deed. The law - when dealing with a killing, determines on the basis of thought whether the class of killing was manslaughter or homicide. Each of the two are criminal, but it is a matter of degree. My grandmother used to say, it is bad enough to think of eating excreta as eating it. In a strict legal sense it is not at all adultery, but in the context of the sanctity of your relationship with your husband it is. Unless you are in an "open" relationship.

ya off course adultery is not only about having physical relationship even mentally attachment should also considered as adultery. you cannot share a thing to other which u arre supposed to do with your spouse

I guess not. As long as it is just online. But moralist would already consider this infidelity, for them just thinking of having an affair with another man is already a sin.