Is it cheating on your spouse if you chat or flirt online?

Question

your only chatting and flirting no actual contact

Answer 1

I wouldnt call it cheating, but I wouldnt like it..lol

Answer 2

Yeah, it involves giving to someone else what should belong to your spouse. What happens when the online woman wants to meet you? You'll be very tempted to say yes. What happens after you've had a few innocent lunches? You decide to have dinner and wine. What happens after a few of these "dates"? You tell her you can't live without her and want her in your life somehow. Cheating is a slow progression into a pit from which you can't seem to escape and of which you aren't sure how you let it get so far so fast.

Chat and flirt with your wife. She'll love you for it and it'll be so much more rewarding.

Answer 3

I would say no as long as it doesn't go any further than that. The problem with the chatting and flirting is that it often leads to something more. You tend to become more comfortable with sharing things with this faceless individual and soon you want to meet them. By the time you meet you have established a close relationship and if the circumstances are right, things get out of hand.

So even though it isn't cheating initially, you are playing with fire.

Answer 4

Are your uncomfortable, uneasy or unable to do this "Chat / Flirting" with your spouse looking over your shoulder or sitting next to you?

If the answer is YES, then your cheating, maybe not physically but spiritually. You may want to look inside yourself and look for the reason for committing a "Chat / Flirting" session with a stranger.

Hope this helps, good luck.

Answer 5

Would you flirt in person with another person while in the presence of your spouse? Would you give your phone number, email address to another person in the presense of your spouse? If the answer is NO, then doing this online is cheating!

Beware! You just might be flirting with your spouse!

Answer 6

Is a form of cheating. Cheating is cheating... any open interest with the someone else is simple just cheating. If you want to explore other options why tie someone down. See there is no reason to go steady with one person if you want to swim in the ocean. Honestly.

Answer 7

I think everyone one us have flirted to some decree at one time or another when we were in a relationship. I dont see nothing wrong with it, I think it might even help strengthen your relationship. But if you take it any farther then just talk, I don't think you really love the person you are with.

Answer 8

Have you told your gf that you are chatting online to another woman and if you say no then yes i would say it is cheating because you are purposely withholding that info from her as you know she'll be upset and worried.

Answer 9

yes its cheating especially when you say its just chatting and flirting to me your lacking in your relationship and looking for it online.... it usually ends in the person hiding emails, deleting the chat convo's, deleting history, and why because your cheating!!

Answer 10

I would consider it cheating. The question you need to ask yourself is what would you think if you discovered your better half doing that? Before you answer that question make sure you are being realistic about it and not just thinking an answer to settle your own conscience.

Answer 11

In some ways yes. You aren't cheating sexually, but you are giving out feelings that should only be directed to your wife. So quit, that's the best advice I can give. God bless.