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Originally Posted by HarryT
Would you not say that forming a strong emotional attachment to someone outside your relationship is the very "definition" of what "cheating" is (if you do it without your partner's knowledge, that is)?
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In some societies and periods of history, couples granted much more leeway to extra-marital emotional and sexual relationships, even if the partner did not know who the extra-marital partners were. If that is implicitly understood to be the arrangement, then extra-marital relationships wouldn't be considered "cheating." That arrangement may be (more) rare today, but it is still practiced by some, and just as valid.