Is it "cheating" to exchange flirtatious banter with someone other than your partner?
>>34618962Emotional cheating yes. If you want to flirt with random people and cannot give it up while in a relationship, you are not fit to be in a long term relationship. People like you deserve to get cheated on since you are doing the same.
No but it's certainly crossing boundaries most people would be uncomfortable with. If I heard my gf doing that, I'd have a serious talk and ask her not to do it again, and if she did it again I'd probably dump her.
>>34618969>People like you deserve to get cheated on since you are doing the same.If chatting in a flirtatious tone is "cheating," then I wouldn't care if my partner was "cheating" on me.
>>34618972Cheaters do deserve to get cheated on, yes.
>>34618977Same for Same.That's fine. Talk is cheap
>>34618962Yes.
>>34618962i'm in consumer sales nigga don't pmo with this bullshitit's not cheating until the invisible gate appears and you cross it willingly
>>34618987I dunno. Am I the only person who wouldn't be jealous if my partner exchanged a few flirtatious words with another person? For me, there's a huge gulf between saying something in a cheeky tone and sucking someone's testicles or whatever.
>>34618962Its cheating if it violates the boundaries you and your partner have established. If you haven't discussed if flirtatious banter is cool yet, I'd say its still cheating since most sane people know that behind the back flirting is typically a violation of someone's trust.>>34619006>>34618972There is a range (compliments on outfit or styling choices vs sexual innuendos and suggestive comments). I don't think your opinions are uncommon, I just wouldn't treat it as the norm
Yes.
>>34618962If your partner knew about it, would they be okay with it? If not, it's cheating.
>>34618962>>34618972>>34618987>If chatting in a flirtatious tone is "cheating," then I wouldn't care if my partner was "cheating" on me.It might not be explicit cheating, but to me it certainly indicates that the person isn't seeing their relationship with you as something exclusive.Yes, 'talk is cheap', but it may eventually lead to actual feelings and desire. That's the intention of flirting, isn't it? To awaken a romantic spark between two people?It's a dangerous can of worms to indulge or allow others to indulge in, to say the least.
>>34618962Talk is just talk. As long as they dont touch or dance or do anything I wouldn't care. This also would also you and your partner trust eachother.
>>34619195This is why most couples end up lookmatched.Pretty privilege is real and acting interested in people gets easy social points. That's why women wear makeup. Its fake but humans are hardwired to give attractive/attentive people free passes.I used to be uglier before plastic surgery and now I can get away with the attractive person thing where I can sit there and not pay attention to anything that someone is saying to me and still have the other person feel like they're being heard.
>>34618962It depends on how your partner sees it imo. Also, I know this is biased but I think gender does matter in this and by this I think men can do this as it’s rare for men to get any attention as is while women get near daily attention.I am a married fit guy with kids and every now and again I get women who openly flirt with me even in front of my wife occasionally. Sometimes I reciprocate and flirt back and my wife doesn’t care. She finds it flattering if anything and will even make comments on the interaction like if the girl was pretty or laugh if she was inappropriate or something. We have been together forever and we never cheated on each other or anything so we have a very trusting relationship and she knows I’m not going anywhere. The same thing happens to her like a guy hitting on her when she’s shopping or guys staring at her in public. She doesn’t entertain any of it and I don’t care when it happens. We are just both really secure with each other so we find it humorous.So yeah it depends on the girl and your relationship.
>>34618962All these replies and no-one tells you to just ask her. People are all different and have different thresholds for what they can tolerate before trust breaks down so just have a conversation with her, ask her openly. Communication is a part of trust building.