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In the post Richards liked on Instagram, influencer Sameeksha Dhoundiya defined micro-cheating as including “secretly messaging someone,” “deleting messages,” “complaining about your partner to other people,” “maintaining contact with your exes or people you used to talk to,” “lying about your relationship status online or offline,” “being touchy with someone else,” “trying to impress someone who isn’t your partner,” “having [a] secret friendship,” and “stalking someone you find attractive.”
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The term micro-cheating refers to small breaches of trust in a relationship that don’t pass the threshold into a physical affair.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5257227/Psychologist-explains-micro-cheating-rise.html
Melanie explained that micro-cheating is a series of seemingly small actions that indicate a person is emotionally or physically focused on someone outside of the relationship.
'You might be engaging in micro-cheating if you secretly connect with another person on social media, if you share private jokes, if you downplay the seriousness of your relationship to your partner or if you enter their name under a code in your phone,' she told FEMAIL.
January 12, 2018
hugovk commented on the word micro-cheating
micro-cheating, n.
The Guardian, 15 January 2018:
August 3, 2018