What is defined as cheating?

Lizzy

In my opinion, the minute you become emotionally or physically involved with someone else, its cheating, whether its online or in person. Anytime youre giving something to another person that should be saved for your partner, youve crossed the line.

Valerie X Account #16! MEAN GIRL

Anything you would not be doing if your partner was standing right there watching you......

The Wife

If you would not do it in front of your spouse, it's cheating. If you hide it from your spouse because you know it would upset them to know. It's cheating. Anytime you have a relationship that for some reason needs to be kept secret, it usually leads to cheating in some form.

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Anything you wouldn't tell your partner.

nydp02

Anything that you wouldn't want your spouse to do to you!!!

J R

Anything that makes you wonder if you are...

loganj99

The thought or consideration of another is cheating. Doesn't just have to be physical.

amyâ™¥baby

Cheating can be mental or physical in my opinion. I define cheating as any contact (verbal or otherwise) with another person that you wouldn't want your significant other to be a witness of. Secret conversations, private meetings, etc. As long as there are no secrets or deception, you're usually in the clear.

questionnaire8765

If you're with someone and begin to spend activities that SHOULD be shared with your partner. Friendship is fine, but when you begin to include them in a level beyond that, it is cheating.

Dollsteak

Sleeping with someone besides your girlfriend or boyfriend. Or having any form of intimacy with another boy or girl, unless its hugging a close friend or something.

Michael H

Sleeping with another man/woman while engaged/married/girlfriends/boyfriends to another man/woman

Natan M

Anything that makes you doubt how much you trust the other person. Which can include:
1.texting
2.Talking about certain subjects
3.Kissing

and much much more.

davincisworld

I think that anything you wouldn't do in the presence of your "significant other" would qualify. Different relationships have different standards. These agreements and norms should be made clear between partners. Once that is established, then my first advice holds true. It's a good question to ask yourself if you have any doubt.

Would you do this with him or her present? Are you OK with telling them about it?

Mrs.BeenThereTwice

Doing "something" outside of a committed relationship that you would not do in the presence of your significant other. Spending time with someone else can be considered cheating too, thus beginning an "emotional" cheating situation.

If you are not in a committed relationship, then the two of you would have to define what is acceptable and what is not.

Osas Adetupe

When you boyfriend is having another girlfriend that is not you.

sahmlomano

Check this out...

http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Commandments-Significance-Gods-Everyday/dp/0060929960

She has a chapter on that.

dancingcatfrog

http://detectivecatchescheater.com/index2.html

The pink panther

If cheating is in your heart, that is the first place the cheating starts.

xsushi217x

any contact to the opposite. a hug is probably good maybe a kiss on the cheek but everything else cheating. it really depends on the people in the relationship

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kssing someone else or anything further

Michael S

doing anything with anyone outside of your spouse/other.

of course there are open relationships and gray areas like when men say to make out with another guy/girl. but otherwise make sure you know what the gray areas are

melmac

Any effort to experiment with another potential love interest that needs to be hidden for fear it may compromise your relationship. If you have to hide or lie about your interactions with another person who is interested in you as more than friends or vice versa it could be considered cheating. To me, that is not limited to physical affections, it can also involve giving into the temptation of seeing where it can lead before it gets to that level. i.e. emotional affairs...

For example, I had a boyfriend who became friendly with a co-worker who was interested in him as more than a friend... he left work early with her one night & they went on a sort of date, but he didn't tell me about it because he didn't want me to know. They went to play putt-putt golf, which could be considered a friendly activity but because there was more to it than that he didn't want me to know. He was testing the waters to see if he felt she was worth pursuing & getting to know better. She told me about it a few weeks after the fact because she had hoped we'd break up & had not, so she tried to cause us to with that info. He came clean only after her confession but both swore that they were never intimate together, however they did kiss. I not only felt cheated because they kissed but also because he went out in public with her alone behind my back not considering what if he had run into someone we or I knew. I was hurt to think that while I'm sitting home committed to him he was out "shopping" so to speak for something better, wasting my time if he did happen to find someone else. Why should I be tied down to someone confused about what they want & not also be available to find happiness. Ultimately we worked it out because he was genuinely remorseful & I felt what happened was forgivable. They weren't intimate together & she was being vengeful against him, but it took a long time to regain my trust.

So I guess the real answer to your question is anything that would cause trust to be lost between partners, because relationships need it to thrive. They should be built on it.

ed9455

giving your love/affection to someone else

the gr8t one

If your asking,then you probably are!!!

inoffensive nickname

Whatever both parties in the relationship mutually agree to define as cheating.

Even swingers have boundaries.

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