What is "cheating" ?

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What is "cheating"

  • a person is only a cheated if they have intercourse with another person

    Votes: 5 38.5%
  • a person is a cheater if there is physical touching only, including lapdances

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • a person is cheating if they have romantic or intimate feelings for another person

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • a person is cheating if they have cybersex

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • a person is cheating if they view pornography

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • even if a person has sex with another person they still may not be cheating

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Total voters
    13
Cheating isn't just a physical thing. I'd consider if you start to have feelings for someone else as cheating. You're cheating out the love you claim to have already for your significant other. I'd personally feel a little insulted if a guy I was with long enough to love said to me that he had feelings for someone else. I think I'd even break it off. And while I think it's possible to love two people at once, I don't go for that bullshit. If I was told that, I'd break it off and tell him to go be with the person he started to have feelings for while being with me. I don't want to be put at second best for someone he also has feelings for.
 
Thanks everyone for the responses :) I figured this would be something people wanted to talk about

I agree the poll is hard to gauge

There was probably a way I could have done it to have it make more sense, I just couldnt think of a way to do it :)

I know these option mean different things to differernt people.

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I think intercourse is cheating. I think sexual touching or kissing is cheating. I also think emotional affairs are cheating.

I dont think porn is cheating, and cybersex is only ok if your parter thinks it is ok

Many people were spot on... " It is cheating if your parter would not like it"

but I ALSO think that if people want to swap parters, or have sex games with people it is ok, but ONLY if both people want to do these things...
 
^^^I don't think it does.

Even when both sides "come together stronger, etc etc" because of it, there's always going to be that little seed of doubt and shame and inferiority gnawing at both or either one of the people in the relationship.

*shrug*
 
Cheating never makes a relationship stronger :(

Sometimes relationships survive affairs, but it certainly adds doubt and mistrust to the relationship. Ive been cheated on enough to know this :(
 
so i have a gf, and i feel guilty, all the time i flirt with this girl at work. pinching, punching in the arm, that stuff. i think she may be intrested in me, but of course im not available. i can even say with a heavy heart that i almost broke up with my gf to chase this girl. but i didnt

**sigh** does this count as letting it off my chest....
 
Cheating never strengths a relationship. If it does, then both people need to rethink the relationship.
 
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I was in a long distance relationship once, I told the guy if he found someone he wanted to be intimate with as long as he told me it was alright, he told me not to worry that he would wait the few months we were apart, while he was saying that he was dating another girl on the side. He told her we broke up when I moved, and was planning on dating her till I got back and then dumping her.
I think if you have to lie about it, then your probably cheating.
 

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