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Sexual Attraction and Cheating?
Is it cheating to be sexually attracted to another person personally while being in a committed relationship?
If its at a point where they are fantasising about that person every time you are doing it, would that be considered as cheating?
The hurt feels the same as a cheat...
6 Answers
- JanetLv 72 years agoFavorite Answer
Being attracted is NOT cheating.
DOING something about that attraction IS cheating.
The more you dwell on a fantasy, the stronger it becomes and the more ugent the NEED to ACT on it will become.
Don't do this to yourself. It will only make you unhappy.
The hurt feels as same as a cheat? This is YOU doing this to YOURSELF.
Actions and emotions//thoughts are NOT the same thing.
We cannot control attraction or emotion, but we can and should control our actions.
In that way, it is only actions that can be bad. And that is one of the first things you learn when you study psychology in university.
- JerryLv 62 years ago
It means you're human. It's not cheating, but it's not healthy. Do what you can to distract yourself from obsessing about the other person.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
Being attracted to someone is not cheating. My husband and I both fine other people attractive and we've been happily married for 16 years. We're married, not dead.
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- Blue SkyLv 72 years ago
No, just because you or someone else have thoughts of cheating does not mean you are cheating. Its two different things.
- Anonymous2 years ago
I don't know how you would know what a partner as thinking unless they told you.
