A trendy term. An initial curiosity that most definitely becomes a habit. An action that opens a path you ought not entertain.
Micro-cheating. Flirting. Curiosity.
Pick a term. If you are hiding conversations from your partner, you're micro-cheating. It's behaving inappropriately with others you wouldn't want your partner to know about.
Technology with its unlimited access is Pandora's box. [According to Greek legend, the first woman, Pandora, actually sent as a curse to Zues' men and was given a present upon her marriage. The present was a box that she was told to never open. Needless to say her curiosity got the better of her (like eating forbidden fruit) and she unleashed eight demons unto the world. The first seven being deadly sins, and the last, which she managed to capture, was hope.
Today, much like Christianity's idea of biting forbidden fruit, opening pandora's box refers to getting into a situation over which on has very little control over. -Urban Dictionary.]
- Flirting with someone other than your partner
- Meeting up with an ex behind your partner's back
- Lurking an old flame's social media
- Exchanging suggestive texts
"Liking" photos on social media under the disguise as a friend, sounds harmless. It's flirting without directly admitting your attraction. It's testing the waters to see if they "like" your photos, because you'd like them to. The liking begins and your interest is piqued and the opportunity is opened.
The "online disinhibition effect" is a term for the loosening of social restrictions and inhibitions that are normally present in face-to-face interactions that takes place in interactions on the internet, which suggests people disclose more personal information more quickly online, which can create an illusion of intimacy and can cause relationships to intensity quickly.
Call it a grey area, but if you are curious, engaging in an emotional connection, an online intimacy and attraction with someone other than your partner, micro-cheating will open that opportunity.
A cheater is a cheater. I believe it does start with a curiosity, that gradually becomes okay, then a habit, then a lifelong pattern.
Have you ever met a person who cheats on their relationship? I believe there are two kinds: one who in a perfect storm who fails once, regrets it and gets their relationship back on track with no other situations AND more often, the one who cheats where you see their lifetime pattern of need for attention and that never, ever, ever changes.
Love is an action, not a feeling.
Respect and protect your relationship. Be careful when things don't feel perfect, curiosity arises, and resist the temptation to just look. Every choice determines an action and before long you are on a path you never intended.
And, pay attention to your partner ...
The "online disinhibition effect" is a term for the loosening of social restrictions and inhibitions that are normally present in face-to-face interactions that takes place in interactions on the internet, which suggests people disclose more personal information more quickly online, which can create an illusion of intimacy and can cause relationships to intensity quickly.
Call it a grey area, but if you are curious, engaging in an emotional connection, an online intimacy and attraction with someone other than your partner, micro-cheating will open that opportunity.
A cheater is a cheater. I believe it does start with a curiosity, that gradually becomes okay, then a habit, then a lifelong pattern.
Have you ever met a person who cheats on their relationship? I believe there are two kinds: one who in a perfect storm who fails once, regrets it and gets their relationship back on track with no other situations AND more often, the one who cheats where you see their lifetime pattern of need for attention and that never, ever, ever changes.
Love is an action, not a feeling.
Respect and protect your relationship. Be careful when things don't feel perfect, curiosity arises, and resist the temptation to just look. Every choice determines an action and before long you are on a path you never intended.
And, pay attention to your partner ...
