When it comes to relationships, cheating is when you have sexual intercourse with someone other than your partner. There are other actions that do not involve sexual intercourse but can leave your partner feeling hurt and betrayed. Take a look below:
1. Always calling and texting someone else
When you are unavailable to your partner because your line is busy while talking endlessly to someone else can be hurtful. No one should have that much closeness and access to you, especially, a member of the opposite sex except your partner.
2. Sexting
Sexting refers to sex chats and the sending of nude pictures back and forth. Imagine how hurtful your partner will be if they ever read such chats and see your nude pictures sent to the opposite sex.
3. Expressing feelings to someone else
This is known as emotional cheating, saying things like, “I wish I met you before my wife or husband,” “I love you,” “I miss you,” “I wish you were here,” to someone other than your partner is wrong, and it is a foot in the door to having sexual intercourse.
4. Going on dates with someone who is not your partner
It makes no sense to go to the restaurant or the movies with the opposite sex to just ‘hang out’ without telling your partner. That’s a date, no matter how you look at it, and dates are usually romantic.
5. Making out
“It was just a kiss, it was just hand stuff. We didn’t have sex.” Whatever twisted logic you are using to explain this doesn’t make sense. Foreplay is part of sexual activity, and engaging in it, is cheating.
6. Withholding any kind of affection
Being absent and unaffectionate can cause the kind of doubts in a relationship that ends up being irreparable. The romantic time spent with another yo other than your partner can be considered cheating.