Cheating

Cheating occurs when there is a substantive break in trust and loyalty; whereby the relationship, while not strictly confined to a monogamous relationship, can be applied to close friendships as well. Cheating encompasses acts of dishonesty, lack of integrity, unloyalty, and trust which generally results in the feeling of betrayal. If a breakup does occur, this begins the final process of a relationship and depending on the time separated and if in short duration/recent within a week or so from the breakup, sleeps with an ex or goes back to the casual lover, is then considered cheating. Cheating can occur either or both as emotional or physical where if behaviours continue despite the other party's reasonable request for contact to stop occurring and the party recognises, agrees and reassures you that the other relationship has ended and says they will not contact them again and ends that relationship to recontact them within a month for whatever reason that is unreasonable is considered cheating/betrayal as well. A relationship is a wholistic process where two people undergo at minimum two processes to three: fall in love (romantic or platonic), maintain the status quo of the relationship and then fall out of love to an amicable or less than the state.