1. What is your
definition of cheating?
Anything that you wouldn't do in a flirtatious, contact, or sexual way if your SO was present.
2. Are there
grades to cheating or all forms of cheating are equal?
There are grades. Cybersex is low on the scale. Intercourse/oral is high.
3. Have you ever
cheated? Yes
4. Have you ever
been cheated on? Yes
5. Which of the above is
easier to forgive? Unsure what this means.
6. Which of the above would
break the relationship? Not sure what this means.
7. Which
gender is most likely to cheat? Equal between the sexes. Statistics bear this out, officially.
8. What would be a
reason for cheating? Boredom with that person. Seeing yourself growing hopelessly apart from them. Feeling dead inside and not wanting to hurt the other person by leaving them.
9. What would be
YOUR reason for cheating? Above.
10. What would be a
reason not to cheat? You are mature enough to see this is a lame activity, karma killing and so beneath your level of class.
11. What would be
YOUR reason not to cheat? Same
12. Would
love make any difference? Yes.
13. Would
marriage make any difference? My current one, yes.
14. Would
children make any difference? No idea.
15. Would
gender make any difference *in how you see cheating*? No
16.
After cheating, is it better to tell the blunt truth or skilfully hide it? Hide it. Your stupidity shouldn't have to affect everyone in your sphere of influence. Just learn from it. Move on.
17.
Forgive or forget when it comes to cheating? Both or you are better off apart.
18.
Pay back or pay it forward when it comes to cheating? Now? Forward. Then? Back.
19. Name a situation in which cheating would
not upset you. If I could have some fun too.
20. Name a situation in which you would
expect cheating to happen. No such situation exists. Cheating is not situational, it's egotistical.
21. Does cheating create a
precedent? Sometimes, I would imagine.
22. Is it possible to
never cheat? Yes.
Jennifer