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Yes.

I've absolutely known people in relationships where they were essentially were dating someone, and got all of the intellectual, emotional, and psychological benefits of being in a full relationship with that person with sex being about the ONLY thing they weren't getting, while simultaneously still in an official relationship with someone else. And it's absolutely unfair to the other person.

As many people are always keen to point out, there's more to a mature adult relationship than just sex. But that also means sex isn't the only way you can essentially "cheat" on someone else. It's just the most obvious way.



SunWuKung420 posted...

No. That would imply best friends (people who are their for each other emotionally and platonically) are cheating on their spouses.

Except it wouldn't, because there are different types of love, commitment, and devotion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

I can love my family, my best friend, and my significant other simultaneously, and every one of those relationships are different and complicated, and don't necessarily conflict with each other. Romantic love is generally the only one where we have an expectation of singular devotion between two people exclusively (unless those people themselves have other ideas and are on the same page about things like polyamory). But "romantic love" is much more complicated than just "friends who fuck".

Physical sex (or lust in general) is an important part of romantic love, but it's not the sole part.
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