Cheating

[TheCbailey07]

Whats your definition of cheating?

[Loverocksyah]

male or female in a relationship
spending time with another person in a date or sexual way.

[kenoloor]

sex (or sexual-related activities) with someone else, kissing someone else on the lips (where it actually means something). My girlfriend has kissed people (who aren't me) during our relationship, but I don't really care because I know that it was a joke and that it wasn't actually serious. It's called trust, kids.

[iallen]

kissing another person when your with someone

[botwa]

kissing a person/having sex

[Smeagol]

Doing anything romantic somebody other than your significant other.

[FullyAlive]

Physically - kissing and anything more

Emotionally - flirting where its past a joke, and idk just having the same emotional relationship without someone else as they did me.

[Mortal Coil]

Physically - kissing and anything more

Emotionally - flirting where its past a joke, and idk just having the same emotional relationship without someone else as they did me.

Yeah, this.

[LatinaVivit]

Cheating - to me - is going behind someone's back with full knowledge that they would not approve, and being involved romantically with another person. If your significant other is fine with an open relationship, then it's no big deal.

[BrassMonkey]

Doing/saying anything Sexual actions with another person other than the one that you are dating or married to. Also flirting.

[Fiction]

I think it really isn't as simple as in every situation something counts as cheating, and I don't think it's completely fair to judge someone for "cheating" in every situation.

Technically, i've cheated before. But really, I don't count it and I don't feel guilty for it. I was in a failing relationship, in an extremely vulnerable mental state (I had tried to commit suicide 2 days before and had come out of hospital that day), and my mind was pretty much all over the place as to what I wanted. I had attempted suicide due to the ending of the relationship, but while I was in hospital we had got back together. That was the mistake I made, because really I was not emotionally in the relationship. It was just a name. That is the part in which I was wrong, not in the kissing someone else.

Now, I guess I did cheat, and I guess it was wrong, but I don't think I should be judged for that because really, it wasn't cold-hearted cheating. I was loyal throughout the relationship before hand, and I "cheated" within the last few hours of a relationship that had already been broken up once.

So my point, cheating shouldn't be judged by an action, but by a situation.

[MemoriesLost]

Becoming intimate or 'friendly' with another being while dating or seeing someone. NOT RIGHT, BRO.

[Ranger]

Becoming intimate with another person/dating another person at the same time.

[Short Circuit]

Cheating is when you are seeing someone else behind your g/f or b/f back.

There is no harm looking at someone else, but no touching ;)

[Kanindrum]

I believe cheating is when you become emotionally attached to another person without telling your significant other of the situation.

[purplepeopleeater]

Basically, think about the things you wouldnt like your significant other doing with someone else; those are YOUR standards. It's different for everyone. In my opinion it's holding hands, kissing(even on the cheek), obviously anything sexual, having you arm around them/their arm around you(like, in a intimate way. Not if it's like "heeey buddy".) Etc. Hope that helped.

[spiderdude]

Haveing a second girl/boyfriend

[CacaoToCacao]

I've never been cheated on (knock on wood) but my friend cheated on his girlfriend with me.

[Danny.Robertson]

Performing an act with is classed as something which would be done in a relatioship intentfully, my uncle studies law. thats how he puts it.

[Aves]

sex (or sexual-related activities) with someone else, kissing someone else on the lips (where it actually means something). My girlfriend has kissed people (who aren't me) during our relationship, but I don't really care because I know that it was a joke and that it wasn't actually serious. It's called trust, kids.

Emotionally - flirting where its past a joke, and idk just having the same emotional relationship without someone else as they did me.

These two. If someone does this to you in a relationship, and doesn't see it as cheating, tell them you do. It's not fair to anyone if they act like this with others while in a relationship.

[pdidyking]

Any sexual act. Touching says it all. Flirting is iffy for me but anything you don't want your partner to do with another you shouldn't do it either.

[byknott]

If you feel like you need to hide it from your partner, it was probably cheating.

If your partner felt like they needed to hide it from you, it was probably cheating.

There are of course the obvious things that mean cheating, too. Sex, meaningful kissing. I kiss a lot of people in my daily life because I greet friends with a peck on the cheek, regardless of gender, if I know the person well enough. I feel that falls out of the bounds of a meaningful kiss. However if I was in a relationship and my boyfriend wanted me to stop, I would. The thing about the bounds of cheating is that it isn't really about YOUR definition: it's about your partner's. You shouldn't be doing anything with anyone else that your partner would feel uncomfortable with or betrayed by.

In a committed relationship you've put your trust in someone else and they've put their trust in you. Don't violate it.

[Gordo]

I think cheating is should be discussed by the couple because what one side says is cheating the other side might assume it's okay. As posters above have already pointed out, it seems that flirting to girls is cheating, but to a guy flirting is just "a nothing to get excited about".

Women here mentioned "emotional... blah, blah" - well, your gonna lose a lot of us guys on that one because we rarely know what a woman is thinking, much less two of you. If there was a party, and the girl goes home, the guys stays, offers some people rides home and ends up alone with a girl at Starbucks at a tiny table in what appears to be an intimate conversation, it'll sure look like cheating, but in reality, nothing is going on.

You either trust the person your with or you don't. If you don't discuss it before hand, then people will likely get hurt.

[Taylor18]

Anything that I wouldn't do to hurt them

[SLABBS]

i think that the definition of cheating is changin over the years. Relationships have become more open to questionable acts with other people and cheating has become more common and tolerated. id define cheating as doing anything with someone that isnt your partner that is somthing you would only do with your partner regularly. (like making out and sex and what not) it really depends on the relationship. in some relationships you can get away with kissing someone else, no harm done. in others, holding hands with somone else or just spending a lot of time with them can be concidered cheating and break up trhe whol relationship.

[commikid]

Someone seeing and flurting with someone who already has a boyfriend/girlfriend etc thats cheating because that will cause hurt to the one that is not aware of it