What do you define as cheating?

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Is it cheating if you're not in a committed relationship with either person?

ElenaSeluna · Accepted Answer

It depends on the type of the relationship.. and if there is relationship in the first place, and what are the things the person does? I mean, it’s also depends on your understanding and what you are ok with

but, generally speaking if it’s not a committed relationship and you are ok with it, it’s not cheating, I know some people do that, being flirty, even sexual with multiple people until they find the one but I don’t encourage that 😄

Nikki1989 · Accepted Answer

Anything sexual is cheating, and that includes watching porn. If you're getting your rocks with another woman, whether in person or on video, you're a cheat. Of course, men will always try to justify it. I have heard it all a million times.

Love Doctor Brad · Accepted Answer

I’m here on GAG to decode messy relationship stuff and flirt a little while doing it 😏

Cheating = breaking an agreed-upon boundary. So if you two never agreed to be exclusive, it’s not technically cheating, but it can still be a red flag. If one person thinks it’s serious and the other is “free agent mode,” that’s emotional confusion, not betrayal. Communication prevents heartbreak, not loyalty tests.

ohsheeT · Answer

Well that depends on what you mean by cheating and who your cheating We have all been there before you meet someone everything is good 2 weeks later you meet someone else. And then in our heads we justify.
Why it's okay to go out with this other person? Because there's not a ring on it so we go for it. or dont  But for me there's a bigger message its has happen to most of us  You can happen when you get into a relationship for5 months or how ever long and somebody comes into your life that you really are compatible with you really like do you have to make a choices? If you cheat in either scenario Who are you really cheating? The person you just started dating or yourself.   It all comes back to who you want to be  Most people can justify anything in this world whether it's right or wrong because of whatever reasons So you have to pick who you want to be , because it's always going to happen no matter what There's always going to be that other person  Do you have to make a choice? You have to be real I look at it as a learning experience.
It happens because your past think about all The Times it's happened that way. There's a message there for you  And then
 Think about the people that you first started to see if they did the same thing to you, is it right wrong? It's just a choice of who you want to be. That's all you can call it whatever you want, whether it is cheating or not. Cheating them, are you cheating yourself? And since it happens the first time that you meet somebody , you know , somebody else is going to come into your life and that's the learning experience you have to figure out that out and take a different path or not It's just part of the growing daphys that we go through or what we are supposed to learn and what we didn't learn from our past , the moment to either change it or do the same thing

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Forget the word "cheating," because it leads to arguments about whether something is "technically" cheating.

The real issue is whether you are violating the trust your partner has formed in the relationship. If it is something that you must hide from your partner, it is a violation of trust.

AviatorTom · Answer

You can't cheat if there is no commitment. However, if the other person believes there is the expectation of commitment, they may think it's cheating.

Finchie40 · Answer

No if you aren’t committed then you are single and can do whatever you want you want to do cuz you don’t need to answer to no one

NathanDavis · Answer

I do define cheating... with someone else, I can't do it on my own

so to me... the more important question is, what would make you feel cheated on...

there are some people who feel really bad if you talk about your "celebrity crushes", there's other people who feel wronged if you watch porn on your own... there's also extreme cases in which people feel cheated on if you have too close friends and go out with them without your partner

so... if both parties agree on some boundaries, to overstep on such boundaries would be a cheating situation and to me that is cheating (other than the very obvious one of fucking other people who are not your partners, lol)

Still-alive · Answer

Anything you know deep down to be wrong that you haven't openly discussed with your partner that its ok.

So for instance if you flirt with others while in a committed relationship when you haven't discussed it with your partner and they are ok with it. i'd call that cheating.

There's some partners who are ok with that though but again its something you both have to discuss and agree on. there's also open relationships for example.

basically if its something you have to go behind your partners back to do... its either cheating or sketchy at the very lead.

dragoblack · Answer

Breaking the agreements and guidelines of the relationship verbal contract.● Which the usual standard is, don't try to sleep with or intentionally seduce other women and/or men[depending on sexual alignment]. If there is a case of a 3-some, it must be talked about prior and with full consent with all persons involved. The approval of a 3-some may be revoked at any time should consent be changed ● for poly relationships, it's usually: before entering any relationship, all persons involved in the poly relationship, must meet and approve of the new individual, along with provide the agreement contract of the relationship should the individual still be interested.

sage2021 · Answer

The way that I see it is that if a guy tells me that he loves me and I love him, and we are dating, then he's with other women THAT'S CHEATING!!

If a person is married but having relationships with just the opposite sex everyday online and messaging each all of the time THAT'S EMOTIONAL CHEATING!!

Anastasia4real · Answer

When someone is loyal with you from soul from physical relations then if you choose cheating for timepass or online on chatting it's a cheating you behave like a greedy animal, in this modern world mostly relations don't know why feed up from one sexual relationship and search another for not a strong reason..

4ngelic · Answer

flirting, kissing, dancing provocatively with another girl, any sexual act (wether with a prostitute or a regular woman, but reg woman is worse), paying for of girls, going to strip clubs or hostess bars, having parasocial relationships with pornstars or half naked influencers

Tiptoetamm · Answer

Cheating to me is when you are committed to someone that person or you does something that you know isn’t right talks to someone in a manner that shouldn’t be done. You can as much emotionally cheat as you can physically cheat. If you know it’s wrong then it’s wrong

slatyb · Answer

Violating whatever promises we made. Not all promises are explicit, some are implicit -- we know our partner's beliefs, and have not told them otherwise. For example, if you've been dating someone for six months, then having sex with someone else without informing them is likely cheating.

Bricealan · Answer

@simslover92 Hard question? Well not really as a 'committed relationship' is usually understood by the parties involved. You don't have to be 'engaged' to be committed.  I cheated in a 2-year relationship, which I certainly regretted later, as she and I were as committed at two could be without vows.

Grond21 · Answer

Giving something to someone else that is by rights only your partner's.

If you are not in a committed relationship, but still in a relationship, then cheating is still possible. If there is no relationship other than one of mutual usury and only one party hopes it turns into something else, then they may feel cheated on, but it isn't really cheating. However, the whole relationship is robbing both people of the potential of a healthy connection.

Brady · Answer

If you're friends n u c someone else 4 whatever reason it's not cheating. If one asks the other 2b their their significant othr it's cheatin if one doesn't like what another does like c othr people. Watchin porn n whistling at others isn't cheatin but isn't allowed if one doesn't like it.

godfatherfan · Answer

Emotionally or physically interacting with someone who is not your SO.

If you are dating someone, and you do that, then yes it is cheating. If you are not exclusive, then it isn't. But I would still tell her to fonk off if I found out.

madhatters4 · Answer

knowingly doing something with a person who is not your boyfriend/girlfriend that if your partner found out would feel like a betrayal of your relationship. it depends on the relationship

lilBigPotato · Answer

Anything sexual with another person that you did behind your partners back without approval. Then there's a bunch more stuff that I wouldn't call cheating but still isn't ok.

But if you're not in a relationship then there's no cheating.

MikeTheBartender · Answer

I'm stealing this from James Sexton, anything that you would not do when your partner is around you. Some people are swingers, some people are openly flirts, but if you would not do it in front of him or her, it is cheating.

jazzy34 · Answer

If you’re casually dating, talking to other people isn’t cheating. Once you become exclusive with someone, however, talking to others would be considered cheating.

abc3643 · Answer

What Mr. Bean is trying to do...

midnightcavern01 · Answer

If you have to ask then it probably is. You my not have said the words to either but theyre probably under that impression and whether you see it or not; they'll probably think differently about it

FunkyMonkee · Answer

If the person you've been in a serious relationship with is romantically kissing or dating someone else or just having any kind of sexual relations with them. Unless, of course, they're being forced into it.

Screenwriter · Answer

Sounds like he's in a friends with benefits sort of thing. Some sort of "open" plan. So, no cheating can be called.

palewhale · Answer

if you wouldn't want them doing what ever it is in front of you and they wouldn't if the shoe was on the other foot.

Spencer10 · Answer

If both have not agreed to a commitment then I do not think this meets the definition of cheating.

Master_Debator · Answer

Simple. Acting outside of the contract of agreed upon terms.

exitseven · Answer

If you are married or in a committed relationship and you have physical sexual contact with somebody else.

Hagar88 · Answer

Sexual contact with another person while in a relationship.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Desiring to be with some else. Emotional romantic connection with someone else. Having sex or volunteer sexual contact with someone else. Kissing on someone else in a romantic way.

Agape93 · Answer

Going outside the bounds of your relationships rules for love or gratification

AngryCarl3 · Answer

If you're not in a committed relationship cheating isn't a thing, as long as both people understand it.

worldscolide · Answer

Any activity done with the opposite sex that you feel the need to hide from tour wife/husband/significant other.

Shiprex · Answer

If you make your partner feel you're not committed to them.

LC75LC71 · Answer

Nope. I don't fuck with cheating questions any longer! Cost me an account here that I had for 8 years..

Mark987 · Answer

Very simple.. someone who physically cheats and even if you're dating someone and you share thoughts with him/her that is cheating.

Mike_Hum · Answer

If there's no understanding of monogamy, no it's not cheating.

LiamJHayden · Answer

No. How can it be cheating with no commitment?

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Nope its only cheating it you two are in an exclusive relationship and what you did is outside of the boundaries that you and your partner set

Abbycado · Answer

Emotionally or physically. Could be either.

Anonymous · Answer

Seeing multiple people at the same time is weird

Dullie · Answer

When my partner let other men’s penus in their vagina thats cheating.

Hopeless30 · Answer

Sim you cheated on me... Yesterday you promise me that today you will smile but you didn't smile yet. You broke the promise. This is called cheating. 🥹

Gexuoo · Answer

Giving importance to others

dudeinohio · Answer

Not until you make it exclusive.

ponderingpaul · Answer

Cheating is based on lies

fish5505_87 · Answer

Not going here!

Emma5456 · Answer

Irritating

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