| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 7:42:54 AM | I wanted to know which form of cheating is worst, emotional or sexual? I know both of them are bad but i think that emtional cheating is worst because that means you are making a connection that you should only have with the person you are in a relationship with. I'm asking because me and my friend were having a discussion about this and she thinks that sexual cheating is worst. I would be mad either way but it just seems like an emotional relationship is something that is more damaging to a relationship. Just curious to what others think.  | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 7:46:08 AM | I think that the distinction between emotional and sexual cheating is a very female distinction. No man I know, myself included, would see any difference. For me, the relationship would be done either way...
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 7:52:26 AM | I see a huge difference.
I've been cheated on both ways..........while they BOTH suck complete ass, I'd have to say the emotional cheating is worse. People are sex driven animals, and given a messed up situation, physical cheating can happen to just about anyone....
Emotional cheating involves a connection, and is something that has to go on for a while before it gets to the point where it is actually cheating. Its the ultimate form of betrayal, giving your heart to someone only to have them giving their's to more than just you. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 7:57:28 AM | Are you taking a poll so you can go back to your friend and say, "see I was right?"
Asking which form of cheating is worse is like asking which form of murder is worse.
Either way the person ends up cheated on or in case of murder - dead. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 8:07:12 AM | | --->guynamedray i didn't say me and my friend were arguing about which was worst, i said we were having a discussion so it wasn't about who was right and who was wrong. we were just merely having a conversation and i was just curious what others thought. this is a forum for discussion so i put the question out there for discussion. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 8:13:56 AM | which did you do, cheat physically or emotionally?
In my book both are equally wrong and both would cause the relationship to end.
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 8:14:07 AM | hmmm lets see....
emotional ;
she thinks about 'him', even when we have sex....OUCH!
physical ;
she stops "just" thinking about him, and takes action.... OUCH!
they're equally bad, I says..... | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 8:51:20 AM | | cheating is a betrayal of trust- it doesn't matter if the betrayal comes from emotional cheating or physical cheating or spiritual cheating... it is still betrayal. There is no worse - the outcome is the same. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 8:55:43 AM | I think that the worst kind of cheating must be when it's with your best friend over a long term and everyone knows except you... because you're being betrayed by every single person in your life.
Betrayal is a very personal thing and what would make one person feel betrayed might be insignificant to another and vice versa. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 9:12:44 AM | I had a friend go through this a few years back. Her husband of more than 20 years cheated on her and had a relationship with a woman for more than a year. She asked what she should do. I told her that no one could make that decision for her. My frame of mind would be different than hers because at the time I had been married about 10 years. They had more history, more assets together, grown children and grandchildren.
I told her that I really don't know what I would do. It is easy to say the relationship is over, not necessarily easy to end it when children are involved. I told her that I thought I could get over a one-night stand much easier than I could get over a relationship over time that was obviously a relationship and not a fling. So I suspect that I believe that emotional cheating even if sex is never involved is more emblematic of a relationship that cannot possibly be saved over a single slip.
She chose to stay. They seem happy. I think I would have left. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 12:36:46 PM | Something I've given some thought to recently...
My conclusion: Any is unacceptable. Neither is worse.
I do not want a life of 'checking up on' and 'secretly wondering'.
If we cannot be in an emotional place with each other where infidelities
of any sort are not part of the equation .. then there will be no we. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 1:08:37 PM | | Would you mind defining cheating? As I am a little confused as I never thought of relationships as games where there was one winner and one loser and there was a way of getting ahead. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 1:21:39 PM | Let's say , for example, your SO suddenly has feelings for someone else, eventually they decides to do the right thing and end your relationship. Before they did, though, is that considered emotional cheating ? Now let's say instead of ending the relationship they have sex with the other person and THEN ends the relationship with you.
I gotta say the physical is worse ( in this example ).
In another example, let's say your SO has feelings for someone else but doesn't want to end your relationship. Maybe you've been together for a long time and having a crush on another is considered by them to be harmless fun since they're not getting physical. Just flirtation. Let's say they DO end up getting physical...
I gotta say the physical is worse ( in this example as well ). | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 1:41:56 PM | | In my opinion any form of cheating is just BAD. It doesn't matter what form of cheating which took place...... the level of pain that your partner/SO will experience afterwards is NOT going to change and I am pretty sure the trust aspect will be thrown out of the window as well. | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 1:44:02 PM | | Any form of cheating is still considered cheating I had an arguement with someone once who they said if you kissed someone that isn't cheating to me that is anything that you would share with your partner that is special and you decide to do that with someone else is considered cheating!!! | |
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| Which is the worst form of cheating?
Posted: 5/15/2008 2:36:00 PM |
I wanted to know which form of cheating is worst, emotional or sexual?
Personally, I don't know of too many emotional relationship that haven't gone full circle to sexual relationships...emotional just builds up to sexual...
If emotional doesn't build up to sexual, they were just busted before they got there...and if that's happened, there's the dilemma of you thinking that your SO is continuously thinking about the other person...
One is just as bad as the other, IMHO... | |
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