When you were younger, cheating tends to be an act with a lesser value; but, we never really knew how big of an impact it can bring to our lives if things get uglier. Perhaps you have heard of cheating from the late-night talks you had with your friend, read about it from your favorite romance book, witnessed it when you were younger or experienced it at first hand.
Cheating is always a sensitive word when it comes to relationships. It is basically defined as the act of emotionally and sexually deceitful and unfaithful to your significant other in the relationship. Having personal and secret contact with another individual outside the romantic relationship is basically deemed as cheating.
Many platforms have featured this unfaithfulness with the hopes of making people aware, relate, and informed about it. Literature, for example, showcases a lot of books with stories of cheating. Most authors incorporate cheating with the purpose of adding twists to a romance, but they didn’t how much it has taught readers the destruction caused by unfaithfulness. There are also other authors, special under nonfiction, which genuinely uses their personal experiences about cheating to make people understand how it affects the development of a person. The effects and reasons why men cheat on Alternate Reality Book by Steve Ross is a great example of the latter.
Additionally, there are many factors that push a person to commit infidelity, betrayal, and unfaithfulness. According to the a 2017 study titled Motivations for Extradyadic Infidelity Revisited, 495 responders — a lot were young adults, tend to cheat due to multiple reasons. These causes include falling out of love, having shallow commitment, wanting popularity, obtaining sexual diversity, and depending on situational aspects. But, what could be the actions that plainly show that a person who is in a relationship is committing infidelity? The following aspects are basically acts of cheating:
- Hitting on other people by sending them explicit or flirty texts
- Communicating with the alleged third party in secret
- Going on intimate dates with an individual other than your significant other
- Seeing your ex for a couple of times without your partner knowing
- Giving or asking phone numbers to keep your contacts and meet up with someone that is not your partner
- Committing inappropriate and erotic acts with another person
- Flirting with others
- Using dating apps without your partner’s knowledge
- Having relationships with others even if you’re already committed
Cheating, furthermore, has two categories namely emotional cheating and physical cheating. What could be the difference between them? Here’s what you need to know:
Emotional Cheating
This refers to the act where someone projects his emotional time, effort, and attention to an individual that is not his partner. This person who is cheating practically has his time divided between the two people that he tries to shower his affection at the same time. As a result, the unfaithful significant other tends to allocate less his time and attention to his partner, which often leads to mistreatment and neglect.
There are many signs of this type of infidelity including but not limited to: the cheating partner tells the third party things about their day but they are not telling you anything; the unfaithful other is becoming more irate on you without concrete reason; the deceitful individual starts to have a difficult time handling the short moments of stress, loneliness, and other emotional issues within your romantic bond.
Physical Cheating
This pertains to the act of unfaithfulness where one in the relationship starts to commit some sexual activities with another person. Basically, physical cheating entails common physical events of intimacy. Showing affection through hand-holding, hugging, kissing, sexual intercourse, and more is under the turf of this category.
In conclusion, any kinds of cheating are unacceptable and heartbreaking. If you are committed to somebody, do your best to remain faithful because you might end up wasting a really great person in exchange for either of your emotional or physical satisfaction. Hence, when someone is faithful to you, you should reciprocate that faithfulness and do your best to not go astray. All you need is to shower your partner your love, time, and effort and not on somebody else.
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