19th September 2005, 7:46 PM
Okay, that's all well and good, but here's a BETTER rule to follow. Cheating should be defined as whatever your significant OTHER considers to be cheating (and visa versa). Now, this takes actually ASKING the other person, but it's a relationship, so there's that. If that person's rules are too strict for your liking (for example, you can't exist within 3 lightyears of other humans while dating), then simply say so. Either you will talk it out, or the relationship will dissolve.
So if your partner is fine with you getting physical with other people whenever you want, then it would not be "cheating". If they are, then it is.
So if your partner is fine with you getting physical with other people whenever you want, then it would not be "cheating". If they are, then it is.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)