Cheating Husbands, Boyfriends, Relationships Demystified
Generally speaking, cheating spouses are romantically or sexually involved with more than one person without anyone’s knowledge or consent. Cheating is also known as sexual infidelity, adultery (if you’re married), an emotional affair, “stepping out”, creeping, or being on the downlow or DL (when discover that your partner’s “other woman” is actually a man).
Most cheaters already know their indiscretions disrespect their partner’s boundaries, thus they usually resort to great lengths to conceal their actions in order to do as they please. Cheating husbands have been known to lie or make up excuses for their behavior. Cheating boyfriends create or magnify other confilicts in order to state that their actions occurred through a troubled relationship when the truth is they were actively seeking to distract their girlfriends from their indiscretions. Even after they’ve been caught in the act, some cheaters will go as far as to deny their cheating or simply turn the argument on the partner, accusing the betrayed party of “spying on them.”
Adulterers engage in inappropriate behaviors with others break pre-established boundaries in their current relationship. Such boundary-infringing activities can and often include passionate physical affection and sexual intercourse.
3 Cheating Spouse Categories: Sexual, Emotional, Internet
While sexual activity with someone else is the most obvious and popular example of adultery, there are several categories of infidelity, including:
Physical Cheating: Physically romantic or sexual affection to one or more women. Physical, or sexual, cheating includes hugging, kissing, spanking, nibbling, cuddling, and sexual activity ranging from heavy petting to sexual intercourse (with or without a condom).
Emotional Cheating: Sharing of intimate emotional thoughts, experiences and feelings with other women, which may allow the male to form emotional attachments to them. An emotional cheater begins to look forward to spending time with this other woman, and sex isn’t necessarily involved or required. The other women may also begin to prefer this woman to his wife or girlfriend.
Internet Cheating: Engaging in online sexual or romantic activity with other women, including sexually suggestive chatting, emails and “cybersex”. Using webcams to show body parts, dance or behave suggestively is also within the realms of internet cheating.
Different Types of Cheating Can and Do Intermix
Cheating spouse actions vary on an individual, case-by-case basis, and can involve one or more of these types of infidelity, creating a devastating combination against their primary relationship. Cheating can be a onetime incident, such as a cheating spouse having physical one night stand or a casual encounter. Or, sexual infidelity or an emotional affair can be a reoccurring series of events. A cheating husband can uphold trysts with one woman one time or several at once. There’s no one correct way to cheat.
Oftentimes, many women assume the reason a man cheats is because he’s not sexually satisfied or she’s no longer attractive. This is definitely not the case. There are as many different reasons for sexual affairs or emotional infidelities as there are different levels and types of cheating; each instance should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
