Tuesday, 25 August 2009

What is Considered Cheating on Your Spouse?

By Sabrina Summerfrield

What is considered cheating on your spouse will vary depending on the couple. However there are a few instances in which everyone acknowledges you have cheated on your spouse. Many times spouses will turn to someone else when they are not getting what they want from their partner, this may simply be for sex, and emotional need or simply to get away and explore. Types of cheating can be really broken down into two categories a physical affair and an emotional affair.

Physical affairs that result in sex can definitely be considered cheating on your spouse. This also includes any for of making out or inappropriate behavior that would not exist between friends. If you can't talk about with your husband or another family member then you have been cheating.

An emotional affair can also happen in which no touching has occurred but interestingly enough men and women have differing views about whether this can be considered cheating. Women become upset when their partner makes an emotional connection with someone even if sex is not involved whereas men tend to be more concerned about sex, though by no means does this apply to all women or men.

Thanks to the internet, our love life just got more complicated. Online dating and virtual chat rooms are the biggest worry. It depends on what your spouse is actually doing on the website - just chatting or exchanging photos? If they are continuously in contact with the person online through emails or chat rooms, this can be considered as cheating.

In every relationship you will reach a lull and the relationship becomes stale. As anyone in a long term, happy situation will reveal you have to work at it. Just because you are together does not mean you should stop 'dating' your partner. Those spouses that have remained faithful will feel betrayed and while your marriage may stay together there will be some serious trust issues to deal with that may never be fully resolved. The one time when I believe cheating would be okay is if you give your partner the okay with their dream girl/boy. It will probably never happen but they can still keep the hope alive!

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