Exclusive | I had an emotional romantic relationship like Cuomo and DeRosa my affair was a mistake that I dont regret

Danielle Lee Darling was a good wife to a good husband of 13 years. But the mother of two exploded that good little life in 2020, after having an “emotional romantic relationship” with a “narcissist” disguised as a good guy. “I had an emotional affair, but I know I’m a good person,” Darling, 43, from Nashville, told The Post.“Even good people do not-so-good things when they’re not in a good place [mentally].”With the faux pas on her permanent record, Darling’s love life fast became a tangled web similar to the one spun by Andrew Cuomo, 67.The former New York governor, who stepped down in 2021, and his top aide, a then-married Melissa DeRosa, engaged in an “emotionally intimate relationship,” during his time in office, per new bombshell legal testimony. A lustful labyrinth of disloyalty, an emotional affair is an extramarital, non-physical bond between two people that “crosses a boundary or a line,” Genny Finkel, a NYC-based licensed clinical social worker, recently told The Post.“They’re talking about things that are really intimate,” she explained.

“They’re making it clear that the person is different than their partner.”However, Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi called DeRosa’s allegations “silly and ridiculous.”“Of course, after seven years of working together for New York, the Governor and Melissa were emotionally close — we all were after going through COVID and everything else together,” he said in a statement.But an emotional-romantic spark oft-ignites a flame that leaves the cheaters burning with desire for one another, says marriage and family therapist Jane Greer.“The distinction between a friendship and an emotional affair is when there’s a longing, there’s an excitement, there’s a need,” said Greer, adding that the dalliance can damage a marriage just as severely as a sexual affair, “because there is a betrayal of trust.”But Darling didn’t perceive her emotional fling as a sin agai...