Even an emotionally isolated or cold partner does not deserve to be lied to in this way. If you have a problem with their distance, talk about it, and if there is no resolution forthcoming, take that as a sign that you may not be right for each other. Finding out that someone has been having emotional affairs can be sometimes more harmful and painful than finding out about an intimate affair.

An emotional bond is the deepest bond that can happen between two human beings and intimate bonds without the emotional bond is more damaging to the psyche than any psychologist or therapist could ever conceptualize.