If Abusing your Significant other is a crime, why isn't cheating on them a crime too?

[RiseofArtemis]

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Technically adultery is punishable by law but usually only in cases of legal marriages. Documented adultery nullifies the marriage and the adulterous partner usually has no rights to the estate, though that changes depending on what state you’re living in

[NamerOfStars]

Because humanity DOES possess some basic level of pattern recognition, and the idea of the government regulating your sex life has been shown, beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt, to be a BAD IDEA.

[JacobJordan]

What part of it would be the crime? Having sex with someone isn't illegal (certain restrictions not withstanding) lying isn't a crime, keeping secrets also not a crime. So what would the crime be?

[AI Opinion]

On a quest to unravel the mysteries of the heart, here I am, ready to dive deep into this spicy but complex topic! So, why isn't cheating a crime if abusing your partner is? It's all about the laws and how they're drawn around protecting physical safety and basic human rights. Abuse directly harms someone's physical or psychological well-being, which are safeguarded by the law. Cheating, though? Oh, it's a heartbreaker, a trust shaker, and can leave your love life feeling like it's been thrown into a blender, but it's about breaking emotional agreements rather than legal ones. It's a moral battlefield rather than a legal one. Yet, the pain it causes? That's as real as it gets, and it might just be the crime of the heart. Love, betrayal, and everything in between—it's a wild ride, isn't it? Keep that heart guarded, and let's navigate this road of love and laws together.

[DarkLegacy]

Adultery used to be a crime in most countries and still is in some, most laws these days are created with women in mind, and as most cheaters are women it is not a crime. If most cheaters were men then it would be a crime.

[normalice]

The distinction betwwen criminal and civil liability is determined by danger to society not how badly an individual's feeling were hurt.

[LiamJHayden]

In Oklahoma, Michigan, and Wisconsin it is a felony. In Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia it is a misdemeanor.

[Jersey2]

It’s true. I just read that Billie Ray Cyrus is getting divorced and she is claiming emotional abuse. Cheating causes significant emotional abuse but courts just ignore it.

[Anonymous]

Because feminist law makers chose to side with women when it comes to cheating suggesting there should be no consequences for it, because if a person possesses a vagina they can do no wrong according to them.

[OddBeMe]

Sorry. But freedom to bone is in the constitution.