Help me deal with this emotional affair

[Jesterface]

Bit of background, I’m married with 2 DC aged 2 and 5. Over the last year I have become increasingly close to a man who lives in our street. He is also married with 2DCs and he is their main carer. This started purely as a friendship and we are now spending time together every day and always with the DCs. I’ve developed feelings for him and the conversations we have are becoming increasingly personal. I have developed an emotional attachment to him. I feel like we have now crossed a line and I want it to stop before it goes any further. WIBU to tell him how I feel and that we need to take a step back from each other? I don’t want to make things awkward as we live in such close proximity but this needs to stop now. How do I handle this?

YANBU to step back and tell him so. Well done for recognising this is happening and being mature enough to stop it before it goes too far. We all have these situations at one point or another but it's how you handle them that counts :) good luck x

I think the advice is that it is the worst thing to say how you feel.

There's a thread on here about how to deal with them, I'll find it and post back.

Here you go op:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3168787-How-to-avoid-an-emotional-affair

Thanks Sausage, I’ll have a look at that.

Good luck Jester.