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The Truth About Side Chicks And Emotional Validation

Many people think side relationships are always about sex, beauty, or lust. In reality, a large number of them are built on something deeper and more dangerous, emotional validation.

A side chick is not always the most beautiful woman in the room. Sometimes she is simply the one who listens, praises, admires, comforts, or makes a man feel important when he no longer feels seen in his main relationship. Human beings naturally gravitate toward places where they feel valued. That emotional hunger is what quietly opens many doors to infidelity.

Some men are not searching for love when they cheat. They are searching for escape. Escape from pressure, disrespect, emotional distance, constant criticism, silence, routine, or feeling invisible. Then suddenly someone appears who laughs at their jokes, praises their efforts, checks on them consistently, and gives them attention without stress. What begins as harmless conversation slowly becomes emotional dependence.

This is why many side relationships become emotionally intense very quickly. Validation is addictive. When a person constantly makes you feel desired, appreciated, admired, or emotionally safe, your mind starts associating them with peace and relief. It creates emotional attachment long before physical intimacy fully develops.

The same thing also happens with women. Some women enter side relationships because they feel emotionally abandoned. A man who listens to them, notices small details, reassures them, and makes them feel attractive again can become emotionally powerful in their lives. Emotional starvation pushes many people into dangerous connections they once believed they would never entertain.

One painful truth about emotional validation is that people often confuse it with genuine love. Not every emotional connection is love. Sometimes it is simply emotional compensation. A person fills a missing emotional gap, and the attachment becomes intense because the unmet need was already there long before they arrived.

Social media has made this problem worse. Validation is now available everywhere. A single lonely moment can lead to attention from strangers, old classmates, coworkers, or admirers waiting silently in direct messages. Many relationships are no longer destroyed by physical distance, they are destroyed by emotional openings.

Ironically, some side chicks understand emotional psychology better than official partners. They know how to make a person feel admired without responsibility, desired without pressure, and appreciated without demands. That temporary emotional high can become intoxicating. The person involved starts comparing peace outside to tension inside their real relationship.

But there is another side people rarely discuss.

Validation built on secrecy is unstable. Most side relationships survive because they exist outside real life responsibilities. There are no bills together, no deep sacrifices, no daily pressure, no long term accountability, and no full exposure to flaws. Fantasy survives best in hidden environments. Once reality enters, many of those emotional connections collapse under the same weight they once escaped from.

Emotional validation itself is not wrong. Every human being wants to feel loved, respected, heard, valued, desired, and emotionally safe. The danger comes when people seek emotional healing from temporary excitement instead of confronting the problems within themselves or their relationships.

Some relationships are genuinely broken and unhealthy. But many others slowly die because emotional neglect was ignored for too long. People stop listening to each other. Appreciation disappears. Communication becomes mechanical. Affection fades. Then someone else arrives and provides the emotional oxygen that has been missing for months or years.

The truth is simple.

Most side relationships are not born in bedrooms first. They are born in emotional gaps.

The truth is that most of these side relationships are borne due to the misbehaviours of the the house hens

Love is a beautiful picture and the best thing ever is love

“Because JESUS rose again, hope is no longer wishful thinking, it is a living certainty.”

They effortlessly make a man calm and relaxed... Unlike the wife at home

Person wey go cheat go cheat ;;
Give her everything ., it doesn’t matter

I lavish nothing less than 10 million naira on 3 of my side chicks every month.
Which 2 among the 3 of my side chicks are pressurizing me to buy cars for them.

I'm planning to keep only one and pursue the remaining 2

For every cheating man, there’s a willing woman and vice versa.

U just nailed it
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So you expect the wife to remain calm after enduring so much disrespect from her husband for the longest time?

Authoreety:
They effortlessly make a man calm and relaxed... Unlike the wife at home

Why side chicks when you can marry more than one? Biology did not change, only economic changed

More money equals to more women for a man

The messed up society that says no woman for a broke man has got no rights to dictate how many women he takes when he becomes rich.

Then what's stopping you guys from practicing polygamy and marrying several wives all at once instead of practicing monogamy?

shortgun:
If we'll tell ourselves the truth, one woman can not satisfy the needs of a man.
This is why many of them crack and become frustrated in marriages leading to endless complains and exhaustion.....our fore fathers figured this out long ago.

Even biologically, a woman is naturally wired to take breaks at certain times, while a man remains active 24/7 all year round....That energy will go somewhere else.......

Samantha125:
Then what's stopping you guys from practicing polygamy and marrying several wives all at once instead of practicing monogamy?

Is the economic. When the economic improve, there will be more women in the house

Very very true


Not always about sex but ends in sec

A very nice writeup. Good analysis.

Truth is one man one wife is not just attainable in reality. Takes too long for nen to reach mental emotion financial spiritual and psychological maturity. A woman needs her boobs and ass to be ready. While a man has to wait till 35 and beyond. A lady is ready at just 18. So there is a group of 18_ 35 yrs old lady waiting for every single man ready at 35. The wiser society permit polygamy as a bridge. ( Culturally instituted) The less wiser ones prefer monogamy but then cheat or have side affair( culturally remove but active in the shadows non the less) . Anyway in principle reality it seem s we cannot avoid this realities. It catering to society needs . It's functional in a true sense

Then don't get married until the economy has improved.

MrPresident1:
Is the economic. When the economic improve, there will be more women in the house

Sonofgod1990:
I lavish nothing less than 10 million naira on 3 of my side chicks every month.
Which 2 among the 3 of my side chicks are pressurizing me to buy cars for them.

I'm planning to keep only one and pursue the remaining 2

Why are you chucking mouth where elders are talking?
Boy go and find your peers to play with, this discussion is above you.

"Side chickism" just like one man called it,
Is an exchange.... Emotional, psychological and sexual satisfaction in exchange of financial settlements.

Sonofgod1990:
I lavish nothing less than 10 million naira on 3 of my side chicks every month.
Which 2 among the 3 of my side chicks are pressurizing me to buy cars for them.

I'm planning to keep only one and pursue the remaining 2

Baba press me small thing na. Arum choro ego like this

These days side chicks are bringing stability to many homes...providing additional shoulder to lean on

I dey find money, una dey talk side chicks. A broke man should not have erections. Joy soap never finish for market. Johnson’s baby lotion full everywhere. Nothing concern me with liabilities of any sort.

Naustine:
Baba press me small thing na. Arum choro ego like this

But you be g Guy?


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Naustine:
Baba press me small thing na. Arum choro ego like this

Paste aza. But you dey run Yahoo?

A married man told me last week, that his wife is too religious.

Another told me last year that he respects his wife, but he will make me happy if I give him a chance.

Another told me I reminded him of his younger sister.

One said his wife had put on weight.

Not one had a genuine reason for straying outside of their marital covenant save for Lust, Greed and Discontentment.

Adultery and Infidelity have nothing to do with your spouse.


A lot of divorces I've seen is because one party is being selfish and telling people "I want to be happy!".

Same as the men who were toasting me: temporary pleasure. They didn't even care if I had HIV, was a witch, worked with kidnappers (I had to even ask one if he wasn't afraid).

The solution is to fix what is wrong in your marriage and relationship and have a better stronger one, but Infidelity is easier. And these side chics don't like you, you're just a walking wallet to broken women who want to feel good about themselves that they can mess with another woman's man.

h777:
The Truth About Side Chicks And Emotional Validation

Your truth is not ONE SIZE FITS ALL.

emotion no dey this agenda not to talk of attachment.

Samantha125:
So you expect the wife to remain calm after enduring so much disrespect from her husband for the longest time?

your husband owes you love not respect...
You are the one who owes him all the respect

h777:
This is why many side relationships become emotionally intense very quickly. .

Emotionally intense on top wetin?
Na mumu man wey no gree draw the line and put clear boundaries.

If you like fine reach heaven, you are just a temporary company to me and that's where it ends.

Sonofgod1990:
Paste aza. But you dey run Yahoo?

Nooooo bro...I'm real..I'm evel job searching as we speak
Aza
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Moniepoint
Nwokoma Austine ihechukwu.

If you fit still link me to a job, I'll really appreciate

Samantha125:
Then don't get married until the economy has improved.

No, we will manage until the economic improve, that is what wise people do

But when prosperity returns the house will grow