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Do you consider online flirting to be cheating?

Back to the OP questions:

If you have to hide if from significant other because they would not approve, then you have your answer.

If they know about it a don't see an issue and you're upfront and not hiding anything, then you have your answer.
 
I think that's between you and your significant other. Anything you do in secret and cover in lies is cheating. However my spouse and I trust each other, we don't hide anything from each other, and we're not bothered by it in the least. We've found it's healthier to let each other be free in those areas as long as we're open about it than to put up restrictions and rules and make it all so enticing.

So yeah, sometimes she flirts with people. It's good for her confidence. Sometimes I have. We both know about it when it happens and we're ok with it.
 
I think that's between you and your significant other. Anything you do in secret and cover in lies is cheating. However my spouse and I trust each other, we don't hide anything from each other, and we're not bothered by it in the least. We've found it's healthier to let each other be free in those areas as long as we're open about it than to put up restrictions and rules and make it all so enticing.

So yeah, sometimes she flirts with people. It's good for her confidence. Sometimes I have. We both know about it when it happens and we're ok with it.

How do you define flirting?

Or are you saying you have an open marriage?
 
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How do you define flirting?

Or are you saying you have an open marriage?
I'm not certain how to define flirting. The point is generally that I'm not going to get upset if she talks to an old boyfriend, reminisces about old times, even has some flirtatious commentary that makes her feel good. I know she's not going to leave me, and if she does then we had bigger issues than the fact that she talked with someone. We've found that not setting those kinds of boundaries makes us be more honest about what we are having issues with and more likely to address them and find less of a need for someone outside to fulfill those holes.
 
How do you define flirting?

Or are you saying you have an open marriage?
They're Slingers.

*Edited to add pic

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No...it’s not cheating.

It’s not good...but it’s definitely not cheating.
 
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The only thing that really matters is whether or not your significant other considers it cheating
Saying, "but hun, my friends on an internet message board said it's fine," doesn't absolve you of cyberwandering?
 
He was a top attorney in a locale I will not mention now living small in Indianhead Acres.

So he knows how divorce works. She gets 1/2, and then 1/2 of his remaining 1/2 for life. It just the math of it.

He must’ve been cheating too. No other reasonable explanation for that.

Guys aren't quitters, statistically speaking. Girls tend to be the emotional basket cases and financially rewarded quitters.

 
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If your spouse was on Facebook flirting with an old fling, would you consider that to be cheating?

Why or why not?
No, but that sure as heck leads to it. It also is dependent on your definition of flirting.

"Wow, you look handsome after all these years."

is much different than sexting and other things I won't type here.
 
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