Affairs: What Is Cheating?

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The love is gone, or is it? You've reached a point in your relationship where you are beginning to question your spouse's commitment to your marriage. You have lost the trust of your partner, and you believe he or she is cheating on you. Before you make any drastic decisions, you must first determine whether or not they are cheating.

Cheating is not just a sexual relationship, although we often focus on this when we discuss infidelity. Cheating, according to Mariam-Webster's Dictionary, is "to deprive something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud; to elude or thwart by or as if by outwitting; to be sexually unfaithful." To deprive of "value". Your marriage is something of value. To use "deceit", or "fraud." Clearly, this occurs when someone knows that what they are doing is wrong. To "elude," by "outwitting." Again, someone knows they are wrong when they use trickery to "pull one over" on you.

While one of the definitions clearly states an interest in sex, the others clearly state that it is anything in which trust is violated using deceitful tactics. This is anything from confiding in someone other than you, up to and including breaking a sexual bond you and your partner once shared.

Cheating is a violation of any commitment. When you are involved in a relationship, you should be committed to that person unconditionally. Often times we hurt our spouses without ever knowing how or ever meaning to.

There are different types of betrayals. There are also different types of people who betray in those different ways. There is no clear cut answer to relationship problems. If there were, we would make it into a pill, bottle it, and sell it, and you would never have to work at a relationship.

But since there is not magic pill, we have to resign to the fact that a relationship takes work to be successful. It's important for you to learn threats to your relationship, as well as how to combat them. You will learn that certain threats also lead to adulterous behavior, and knowing them will help prevent that from happening.

No one wants to be cheated on, but often we never realize that it is happening. Learning what types of behaviors trigger this response can keep your relationship healthy and lasting. Affairs don't "just happen." There are typical patterns that lead to affairs. While there are many ways that affairs are different, there is one constant; an unfaithful partner is ALWAYS afraid of losing his spouse, his paramour, or BOTH!


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