19 February, 2018

Three shades of cheatings

According to oxforddictionaries.com the latest relationship buzzword is micro-cheating. As psychologist Melanie Schilling defined it for HuffPost Australia: "Micro-cheating is a series of seemingly small actions that indicate a person is emotionally or physically focused on someone outside their relationship." In the smartphone era, these actions may especially take the form of secretly texting or direct-messaging another person, saving a contact in a phone under a codename, or privately communicating with ex-partners online. So what should we call a full-fledged affair: macro-cheating? Is nano-cheating a mere thought that is unfaithful to one's partner?