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1. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship (同)affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour
2. a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions" (同)occasion, social occasion, function, social function
3. affairs between nations; "you cant really keep up with world affairs by watching television" (同)international affairs
4. the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
5. a relationship between two lovers (同)romance
6. transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

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1. 〈C〉(個人的に関心・関係のある)『事』,事柄 / 〈C〉『事件』,でき事 / 《複数形で》仕事,業務 / 〈C〉《話》《修飾語を伴って》物,しろもの / 〈C〉(特に一時期の)恋愛事件,情事

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For the album by Cherrelle, see Affair (album). For political affairs, see political scandal.

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An affair is a sexual relationship or a romantic friendship or passionate attachment between two people.

Romantic affair

A romantic affair, also called an affair of the heart, may refer to sexual liaisons among unwed or wedded parties, or to various forms of nonmonogamy. Unlike a casual relationship, which is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have sex without expecting a more formal romantic relationship, an affair is by its nature romantic. Affair may also describe part of an agreement within an open marriage or open relationship, such as swinging, dating, or polyamory, in which some forms of sex with one's non-primary partner(s) are permitted and other forms are not. Participants in open relationships, including unmarried couples and polyamorous families, may consider sanctioned affairs the norm, but when a non-sanctioned affair occurs, it is described as infidelity and may be experienced as adultery, or a betrayal both of trust and integrity, even though to most people it would not be considered "illicit".

When a romantic affair lacks both overt and covert sexual behaviour and yet exhibits intense or enduring emotional intimacy it may be referred to as an emotional affair, platonic love, or a romantic friendship.

Extramarital affair

Main articles: Infidelity, Adultery, and Extramarital sex

Extramarital affairs are relationships outside of marriage where an illicit romantic or sexual relationship or a romantic friendship or passionate attachment occurs.^{[citation needed]}

An extramarital affair that continues in one form or another for years, even as one of the partners to that affair passes through marriage, divorce and remarriage, could be considered the primary relationship and the marriages secondary to it. This may be serial polygamy or other forms of nonmonogamy.^{[citation needed]}

The ability to pursue serial and clandestine extramarital affairs whilst safeguarding the secrets and conflict of interest inherent in the practice, requires skill in deception and duplicitous negotiation. Even to hide one affair requires a degree of skill or malicious gaslighting. All these behaviors are more usually called lying.^{[citation needed]}

Deception can be defined as the "covert manipulation of perception to alter thoughts, feeling, or beliefs". The presence of deception may indicate the degree to which the deceiver has breached fundamental conditions of fidelity, of reciprocal vulnerability and of transparency. Sometimes these are explicit or assumed pre-conditions of a committed intimate relationships.^{[citation needed]}

Individuals having affairs with married men or women can be prosecuted for adultery in some jurisdictions and can be sued by the jilted spouses in others, or named as 'co-respondent' in divorce proceedings. As of 2009, eight U.S. states permitted such alienation of affections lawsuits.

Online affair

The appearance of computer-mediated communication introduces a new type of communication and consequently a new type of "affair". There are various kinds of computer-mediated communication that differ in some significant aspects: one-to-one or group communication formats, interrelating with anonymous or identified people, and communicating in synchronous or asynchronous formats. Online affairs combine features of close and remote relationships. It also

Ben Ze'ef argues that an online affair is a unique kind of affair—termed "detached attachment", or just "detachment"—that includes opposing features whose presence in a face-to-face affair would be paradoxical. Like direct, face-to-face affairs, online affairs can be spontaneous and casual and show intensive personal involvement. However, online affairs can also be more of a planned discourse than spontaneous talk; like written letters, online messages can be stored and thus have permanent presence, which is absent from face-to-face affairs.

People participating in online affairs may be strangers to each other in the sense that they have never actually met each other. However, they are also close to each other since they share intimate information. In online affairs, people try to enjoy the benefits of both close and remote affairs, while avoiding their flaws. People enjoy the highly valued products of close affairs while paying the low cost of remote affairs. As one woman wrote: 'He constantly told me that he can not provide me with what I would want and I would always respond with: "I'm not asking anything from you, but simply enjoy your company".

Famous affairs

See also: Political scandal and Sex scandal

• Affair of the diamond necklace
• Hamilton–Reynolds sex scandal, an affair between Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds
• A Scandal in Bohemia, a fictional affair which forms the basis for the first Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Graduate, the noted 1967 Mike Nichols film about the fictional seduction and affair between Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and young college graduate Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)
• Nelson–Hamilton affair
• Oscar Wilde – Lord Alfred Douglas affair
• Edward VIII – Wallis Simpson affair
• Cunningham–Agee affair
• Harden–Eulenburg affair
• Hemings–Jefferson affair
• Haijby affair
• Iris Robinson Scandal
• Lavon Affair
• The Lewinsky Scandal (Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky)
• Stevenson–Lloyd George affair
• The Makropulos Affair (play and opera)
• Munsinger Affair
• Profumo Affair
• Spiegel Affair
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Spitzer Scandal
• John F. Kennedy's affair, among others, with Marilyn Monroe
• Robert F. Kennedy's affair with Marilyn Monroe
• John Edwards affair
• Mark Sanford affair
• Scott Peterson's affair with Amber Frey
• Tiger Woods' affairs
• General David Petraeus's extra marital affair with Paula Broadwell
• Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas affair

See also

• Courtly love
• Crime of passion
• On-again, off-again relationship
• Polysexuality
• Scandals
• Family therapy

References

Further reading

• Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2004). Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: The effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person's partner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 560–584.

External links

• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, On marital infidelity and the prospects for healing in the relationship

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