Are You Micro Cheating?
Cosmopolitan India|September 2017

You haven’t bought the T-shirt, sure, but if you’re window shopping in unfaithful-town and shooting flirty-eyes at the salesman, let us introduce you to a little thing called micro-cheating.

Mel Evans
Are You Micro Cheating?

Is it your colleague? Your gym instructor? What we’re asking is, could you be inadvertently cheating on your partner? It’s a loaded question but, you see, there’s this thing called micro-cheating and it’s not something so ridiculous or sinister that you’d assume you haven’t done it. It’s not danger and blaring sirens—and it’s usually a subconscious action. Still, it’s not all sunshine and commitment, either, and could signal something that needs attention in your relationship.

In a relationship nutshell, micro cheating is the term that describes all the small things we do that could have whispers of infidelity, without actually, physically being unfaithful. Micro-cheating can take you into territories you might regret. Think of it as the little sister to emotional cheating, sans that deep emoconnection that would otherwise derail a relationship (side note: it’s said that emotional cheating can hurt much more than its physical counterpart).

But given micro-cheating can build the blocks to something more, it evidently doesn’t take physically smacking your lips on a juicy new conquest to spell trouble. The first step to note? A little overzealous flirtation.

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