Speaker 1: Look, I would say most of the population is on
Speaker 1: board and has the same feelings surrounding cheating in a relationship.
Speaker 1: But I think where the water gets a bit muddy
Speaker 1: is with this term micro cheating. Now, there's this list
Speaker 1: going viral online at the moment on TikTok that this
Speaker 1: one girls put out to her what constitutes micro cheating? Now,
Speaker 1: micro cheating if you don't know when your plane at
Speaker 1: home is like anything that is considered crossing a line
Speaker 1: without it being physical, Like they haven't gone out and
Speaker 1: hooked up with someone like physically, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But it's things that deep down you know that ain't right.
Speaker 1: You know your partner's probably not going to be happy.
Speaker 2: Whenever I think of micro cheating like as a concept,
Speaker 2: the very number one that comes to mind for me
Speaker 2: is like liking other people's like as in like if
Speaker 2: you're dating a guy and he's liking all these bikini
Speaker 2: photos over and over and over, You're like necessary or not?
Speaker 1: You see? To me, the thing that comes to mind
Speaker 1: first is I guess probably secret conversations or excessive conversations.
Speaker 1: So if it was a relationship with mean a man,
Speaker 1: like if my partner was messaging another woman a lot,
Speaker 1: asking how she is checking in And even if I
Speaker 1: knew or if I didn't know, that is micro cheating
Speaker 1: just cheating?
Speaker 3: Well no not because if they're just like, hey.
Speaker 1: How are you, I'm like, look, I know that there's
Speaker 1: some deeper feeling there. But this list tell me what
Speaker 1: you guys think about this, because this is the controversial part.
Speaker 1: This is her list of micro cheating secretly messaging someone, flirting,
Speaker 1: maintaining contact with ex's adding or liking half naked people's
Speaker 1: pictures online. Yeah. Yeah, seeking new friendships with people that
Speaker 1: you find attractive, so like actively going out to meet
Speaker 1: new people because you think they're hot. Lying about your
Speaker 1: relationship status online or in person.
Speaker 3: To me, that's just cheating. Yeah, I think that's just cheating.
Speaker 2: But also I guess the problem like this, if you
Speaker 2: haven't heard of this idea of micro cheating, I think
Speaker 2: the reason why it's such a gray area is because
Speaker 2: sometimes it sounds a little bit crazy when you say
Speaker 2: out loud or I don't like these things that you're doing,
Speaker 2: because like they haven't actually done anything that's one hundred
Speaker 2: percent black and white wrong. It can actually make you
Speaker 2: sound a little bit insane that you're putting all these
Speaker 2: things down, But it's the it's these things together that
Speaker 2: make you feel insecure in a relationship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I say technology has come so far. Like
Speaker 3: fifty years ago, you could only cheat on someone physically.
Speaker 3: Now you've got you can like flo float with someone
Speaker 3: on LinkedIn, you know.
Speaker 2: So you have to move the bar, or you can
Speaker 2: just appear to be single, like a lot of people
Speaker 2: who are like cheating or keeping their options open. They
Speaker 2: may not cross the line yet, but they're appearing single
Speaker 2: online because they're keeping their options open.
Speaker 1: But I think it's so subjective to essentially it is
Speaker 1: your partner crossing a boundary that you have put up.
Speaker 1: Have you said this isn't cool and they're secretly doing
Speaker 1: it anyway? Then they then there's something else going on, right,
Speaker 1: But liking of a photo here and there, to me, fine, nothing,
Speaker 1: who cares. But if you've gone onto one person's page
Speaker 1: on Instagram, you've liked ten photos, you've sent some fire flames,
Speaker 1: you know, you've done all the stuff, you.
Speaker 2: Did the groundwork.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get their attention. The only reason you
Speaker 1: go back on people is to get their attention. So
Speaker 1: something else sus is going on.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's micro cheating as much as it
Speaker 3: is like pre cheating. It's like doing that. It's like
Speaker 3: pre cheating because if we're going to throw around terms
Speaker 3: because it's like technically not the cheat, but you'll lay
Speaker 3: in the land, you're sewing the seed for one day,
Speaker 3: potentially needing another person, or if you decide to physically
Speaker 3: cheat that you've got people there ready to go.
Speaker 2: I think, okay, Ultimately, I just think if you're already
Speaker 2: feeling this insecure in a relationship, if you're looking for
Speaker 2: all these signs, if your partner's doing all these things,
Speaker 2: and you need a label for micro cheating, it's probably
Speaker 2: not the relationship to be in.
Speaker 1: Keep your five flames to yourself.
Speaker 2: I really in your monogamous relationship.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping it was cheating for ants, micro cheating.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to I'm.
Speaker 3: To break into that. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not cheating for tiny little all
Speaker 2: Right, Well, coming up, I want to know when did
Speaker 2: you put your foot in it get yourself into a
Speaker 2: bit of trouble if it were, well, not in the
Speaker 2: micro cheating, but just like, when did you make a
Speaker 2: mistake