CuriousLord -> RE: When is Cheating not cheating? (4/18/2007 7:20:49 PM)
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Cheating isn't cheating when the other partner(s) knows, consents, and approves. Also, it isn't cheating in an open relationship, or under circumstances in which the other partner(s) understand it may happen and general consent is provided in advance. There are more unusual exception cases, too. Rape, which the victim in no way invited and attempted, to the best of his/her ability, to fend off, for example. Edit: I'd like to point out there are cases that are cheating, and the other partner both knows and consents (but doesn't approve). Such as, as sterotypical as I can think of here, a house wife with a neglectful husband. The neglectful husband goes out late at night, when both know he's going to just sleep with some other woman. The housewife knows, and, unwilling to stop him, consents (it is important to understand she can stop him, say, with a pistol- but she's unwilling, and, in her failure to act, provides consent). However, she doesn't approve. Bottom line being, to clarfy the orginial part of the post, the act being known and unprotested doesn't mean it's not cheating.
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