Is kissing someone when in a relationship considered cheating?

[Hollywood-Tourist]

Thanks everyone for your answers. All whether we agree with them or not were well constructed.

[Oli.]

How is this even a debate?

Unless you're in an open relationship then it's cheating.

[candie13]

it shows ambivalence at best. not good, mate... not good at all...

[TunaCat]

Except in the case of sexual assault obviously, YES kissing is totally cheating.

[lana-banana]

It's cheating, period. However, I think the other person's behavior and attitude can be more important than the act of cheating itself. I had a boyfriend who left town for a weekend with friends and kissed another girl while he was out. When he came home he immediately broke up with me. It was cheating, sure, but I wasn't all that upset because he at least did the right thing in the end. If he had continued to date me and insisted that kissing another girl wasn't a big deal, I would have been livid.

 

I've never understood the idea that only sex counts as cheating, but all that matters is both partners agree. If you and your partner have varying definitions of infidelity then someone's going to get a rude awakening.