What is considered cheating?

Question

Obviously being with another person sexually is cheating. but what else is considered cheating? flirting? im curious about what your answers are!

Answer 1

Cheating is anything you do that will take away from a comitted relationship. Cheating can be physical, emotional, or mental. Thus an online affair can be as damaging as your spouse going out and having sex with another person.

Answer 2

If you're wondering, it probably is. Anytime you feel an emotional connection with someone else, any kind of contact that feels intimate - could be just talking or texting, but feels close, brings you closer to that person - is cheating. If you're not emotionally involved, then these same things are just friendly. Also I'm assuming by kissing you mean a kiss on the cheek, because on the mouth or deep kissing is definitely across the line.

Answer 3

Personally myself cheating is putting your feelings into someone other then your spouse or doing something you know you would find wrong if you had it done to you. Chatting can be cheating, phone sex, e-mailing if it is personal and feelings are put into it with someone other then your mate.
talking with someone out of the marriage that you are attracted to in a sexual way and is not work, flirting is cheating it is forplay, put yourself in this position if someone was doing this to you and you think it is wrong then most likely it is.

Cheating is very broad it is basically anything with a person of the opposite sex or the same sex that involves your emotions and your body or even just your voice or your fingers on a keyboard too invoke feelings from the other person..

Answer 4

I think that any form of sexual touching or even gratification (phone sex, cybersex, etc) involving interaction with another person is cheating. Everything else is what I would call inappropriate behavior. Flirting, going to strip clubs, and such are examples of behavior that is inappropriate for a married person, but not technically cheating.

Later edit: Reading what Nice Lady wrote, I forgot that caveat. Yes, of course, anything both people agree on is not cheating because you have changed the rules. I was trying to formulate a definition based on the rules most people typically follow.

Answer 5

Anything up to and including the horizontal cha-cha is cheating. Developing an emotional involvement with, say, a coworker that excludes the spouse is "cheating". Bouncing e-mails back and forth (which exclude the spouse) is cheating. A good rule of thumb is: if you question the wisdom of something you're thinking of doing with someone who is not your spouse, then don't do it.

Answer 6

cheating means different things to different people. i think that anything you do not want you significant other knowing about it cheating. my hubby had an emotional affair over the summer. to my knowledge he never actaully had sex with the girl, but he talked to her on the phone 5-7 times a day, every day, for 4 months. this was while i was pregnant also. so yes, i count that as cheating.

Answer 7

RE:
What is considered cheating?
Obviously being with another person sexually is cheating. but what else is considered cheating? flirting? im curious about what your answers are!

Answer 8

I consider cheating anything they do with another person that I would not do , I like to be treated the same as I treat them....

Answer 9

Flirting is not "cheating", but to a lot of people in a relationship, flirting would be a problem. Most people are insecure, and to see their partner flirting would drive them nuts. I know some women who are so insecure about themselves, they go off on their men for just LOOKING at other women. It's sad, because the stress of being with someone like that usually ends the relationship, and they refuse to believe that it was THEIR OWN actions that drove their partner away.

Answer 10

Here's what Wikipedia has to say... I think it just about covers is:

With regard to human relationships, couples tend to expect sexual monogamy of each other. If so, then cheating commonly refers to forms of infidelity, particularly adultery.[9]. However, there are other divisions of infidelity, which may be emotional. Cheating by thinking of, touching and talking with the other sex may equally be as damaging to one of the parties. Emotional cheating may be correlated to that of emotional abuse, which to date is treated as seriously in a court of law as physical cheating. With the expansion of understanding of other cultures, there is a wide spectrum of what cheating means. When in a committed relationship, the definition of cheating is based on both parties opinions and both parties may redefine their understanding to match the party at an either lower or higher extreme of this definition. Some couples simply believe that cheating constitutes doing anything, whether verbal or physical, that one would not do in front of their significant other. Such examples would include: Kissing, Making out, and Sexual Relations.

Many people consider cheating to be any violation of the mutually agreed-upon rules or boundaries of a relationship, which may or may not include sexual monogamy. For example, in some polyamorous relationships, the concepts of commitment and fidelity do not necessarily hinge on complete sexual or emotional monogamy. Whether polyamorous or monogamous, the boundaries to which people agree vary widely, and sometimes these boundaries evolve within each relationship.