Emotional support is when you show your support to a person through your emotions.

emotional support in a time of distress.

Not really. Emotional affairs are a situation where one person out of a romantic couple seeks emotional support from a person who is not their spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend. For it to count as an emotional affair, the person supplying the emotional support would have to be someone who would be eligible as a companion had the person seeking emotional support not been romantically involved already.

Sex does not really supply emotional support, so it does not fit into a specifically emotional affair.

being available for somebody else for emotional support and sharing an emotional bond with somebody.

information and access to support social emotional and identity need of the elderly in care