| Yeah, I'm someone else who doesn't believe in "emotional cheating". I think if you're with someone and absolutely besotted with someone else, to the point where your relationship with your partner suffers, that's something else.
I wouldn't lump it in with cheating because most people who cheat carnally aren't doing it for the same reasons - it's usually either a drunken mistake or done out of spite, rather than because you're madly in love with the person you cheat on.
To my mind, cheating is sleeping with someone else, without your partner's consent. It only counts as an open relationship if both parties are equally aware of and happy with the situation, so if you sleep with someone else just because you haven't made it official that you're being monogamous, that's a shitty thing to do.
But yeah, just thinking about it isn't cheating, and calling it "emotional cheating" is even sillier. People might want to cheat, but it's not because of emotions, unless boredom counts as an emotion. |