micro-cheating

the gray area between being completely faithful and obviously cheating.

secret flirting, keeping someone around for attention, hiding messages, deleting conversations, or doing things you would suddenly stop doing if your partner walked into the room.

sometimes cheating starts long before anything physical happens. for example, constantly sending flirty messages to someone, hiding the chat from your partner, and telling yourself “nothing happened.” maybe nothing happened physically. but something already changed.

controversial take: if you would be embarrassed to do it in front of your partner, you probably already know what it is.

liking someone’s thirst traps is not automatically cheating.