From a moral standpoint, it's not cheating as soon as you've walked out and left him. As you're leaving an abusive relationship, I'd suggest being a little careful of not just jumping into a relationship with the guy that helped you get out from gratitude, or misplaced feelings. This isn't a criticism of your relationship, I don't know enough to comment, just that I know that can be a problem that arises in similar situations.
Without knowing where you are though, it's hard to make a comment from a legal standpoint. In some jurisdictions, you having sex or even dating might make you an "adulterer" and cause problems for the divorce and/or settlement. If there's children/money/property involved, you might want to speak to some genuine legal advice in order to best protect yourself.
It's not cheating if you're done with your husband. You may have only filed for divorce now, but you were separated before that, right? If you're separated, how is that cheating?
Cheating depends on your partner's feelings and whether they'll feel cheated on if you for instance sleep with someone else. There's no reason for you husband at this point to feel cheated on, right? That would make no sense since you're not actually together anymore.
the only people that will know about it, is you and him. I say go for it. You love him and I'm sure you plan on staying with him, so why not? times have changed and less and less people are getting married in the first place. It's just a piece of paper saying 2 people HAVE to stay together, no big deal.
Legally-it is still considered an extramarital affair because until the divorce is finalized you are still legally married...
Morally-that is your call to make (well yours and the other person involved and how he feels about it) noone else's...
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I'd wait until everything is completed just to be on the safe side. After all, your still-not-ex-husband could contests things and try to sabotage the process.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you could still incur 'alienation of affection' and/or 'criminal conversation' (legal-speak for 'illegal sex') while the divorce (state-permission to have sex with someone not your spouse) is issued.
Correction: "Depending on your jurisdiction, you could still incur 'alienation of affection' and/or 'criminal conversation' (legal-speak for 'illegal sex') while the divorce (state-permission to have sex with someone not your spouse) is NOT YET issued."
Guess at this point it doesn't much matter cheating or not! You could have been fucking this new found friend the entire time you have been with him and legally it would change nothing as far as your divorce.
You can be free with your boyfriend. You could of been free this whole time but you obviously chose to wait.
I would wait, to me it's the right thing to do.
This is exactly what happened with my wife and her previous husband.
We had sex right away.
Really? It was okay?
Well, I felt a bit weird - she was still married, so, technically, I was "the other man". But I only met her when she filed the restraining order after the abusive incident. While still technically married, the marriage was clearly over and, so for me, it was not a problem. Think of it as "engaged to be divorced and available". Plus, she was hot and I was "seriously underutilized" sexually in the 1990s, so it was easy to want to have sex with her. For her, I was the first man in 20+ years who was not her husband that she had sex with. She didn't seem to have a problem and I suspect it was because she really hated her husband by that point - it had been brewing their whole marriage - and she was hot for me. She was married to a redneck who had a tough time reading. She said to me "I wanted a man with long hair, an earring, and who could read". I had all of that.
Yup no issues
Hell yeah, go crazy on your new man
Feel sorta bad for the ex though
That will fuck him up
Technically I guess it is, but it's over, it's just not "official" yet, so I don't know anyone that wouldn't think it's over and not do it.
it's officially cheating, but i've been the guy who didn't give a shit about waiting also so i understand
You can have fun now. Start by fucking on top of your divorce complaint.
I guess, as long as you are not together anymore.
It depends on where you are, but the courts can hold it against you if you do this before the divorce is final.
by the way I'm not saying you shouldn't, nor am I judging you, especially since he is abusive, I'm just saying it can be used against you in court. I've seen it happen
How long have you been separated?
A month
Do you think he'd be the type to hire someone to dig up dirt on you? If he is you should probably wait until it's official to avoid drama.
He’s acting crazy and i reported him to the police
Technically, its still considered cheating and if he found out, that could be used against you in court.
I think it's not cheating if you're separated or in the process of getting divorced.
Since you have filed for divorce and you both aren't staying together , you can sleep or live with anybody you want and this isn't cheating at all
I mean you 2 are done... Moving on is natural...
Though society will have their opinions which I'm sure you don't care much about their opinions.
It’s fine as long as you both are not together.
Nope it still cheating until your divorce is finalized and he can use that against you in court
Soo you already mentally cheated prior to the divorce?
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