Micro-cheating is a term that captures subtle actions or behaviors that, while not outright infidelity, can still challenge the trust and integrity of a relationship. These seemingly small betrayals ...

For Toby Ingham, psychotherapist and author of How to Improve Emotional Stability, referring to that sought-after spark as “chemistry” is an interesting analogy. “In dating, it tends to describe an ...

Picture this: A woman's phone buzzes on the coffee table, and her husband sees a notification pop up on the screen. It’s the woman's coworker, John, texting to say she did such a great job on her work ...

With cheating in a relationship, whether physical or emotional, it's typically clear when things have gone too far — but what ...

Picture this: Your friend has been in a happy, healthy, monogamous relationship—that is, until the internet convinced her otherwise. She confides in you that behaviors she thought were normal (e.g., ...

Finding out your partner cheated can bring up an array of emotions. You may feel angry, sad, guilty, betrayed, and more. Cheating or infidelity is when a person in a committed relationship secretly ...

A TikTok user is redefining what counts as fidelity, claiming that “micro-cheating” could be the ultimate marriage killer. Suzanna Roxanne (@suzanneroxanne) dropped her latest viral video on ...

What counts as cheating to you? For example, if your partner flirted with someone else, would you consider that to be a form of infidelity? What if they followed or interacted with someone attractive ...

I had always figured that cheating on my partner was sort of impossible since we opened our relationship. Before, when we were monogamous, the parameters of what was and was not cheating were ...

There may be small, seemingly innocent things your partner is doing that count as cheating without them even realising it – a pattern known as micro-cheating. If your partner is talking to an ex, ...

“Affair” is one of those words that we think we know the definition of quite clearly until there comes a point to fully explain it to someone else. As a mental health counselor, educator, and advocate ...