Is online flirting cheating?

If your spouse is chatting and flirting online, does that constitute infidelity to you? With so many chatting and dating sites on the internet these days, many people actually do spend some of their time surfing these sites to look for someone to talk to.

Previously, infidelity requires face to face meeting but nowadays, you can chat with someone without being physically present in each other’s company. You can flirt, share your problems and unveil your deepest feelings without your partner knowing what you are doing online.

And yet, while there is no physical proximity, it also seems to border on infidelity. Because if you are attached and you know physically flirting and sharing your deepest emotions with a person of the opposite sex is wrong, does it make it right if you transfer the process online?

It’s interesting to see how differently people react to a situation. Let’s take, for example, internet friendships/relationships versus real life friendships/relationships. If you were to have a favorite coffee shop or bar that you went to on a daily basis and interacted with other patrons there the way you do in internet chat; joking around, poking fun at myself and them, giving and seeking advice, talking about past experiences, sharing hopes and goals, offering support and accepting it when you need it, hugging, a kiss on the cheek perhaps and even maybe some playful groping or even having a deep intellectual private conversation. How do the two differ?

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