Loyalty and social media
Social networks are transforming the way of acting in couple relationships and that also affects infidelity. Is there virtual infidelity? Where is the boundary between harmless chat and cheating on your partner? We are analyzing infidelity in times of Instagram , because the photographs of happy couples also have a trick.
Cheating on your partner in times of Instagram
It all started the day an acquaintance uploaded a photo to Instagram . She looked so happy with her new love on that beach at sunset. And what a great body her boyfriend had. Not to be happy with such a specimen. And the friends of your friends are also your friends, you end up not knowing quite how to chat with that guy. All very harmless.
Until one day your boyfriend reproaches you for spending more time on social networks than with him. Until another day you are surprised to change the password of your profiles on Facebook and Instagram ‘just in case’. Until another day you wonder if the chat is not rising in tone with that friend of your friend. Are you being unfaithful? Is there virtual infidelity?
If someone is able to put the limit between a flirting by chat to a full- blown infidelity without leaving the field of social networks, let us shed a little light because we are unable to delimit it. Those likes that bother your boyfriend so much, do they justify his suspicions of infidelity ? So what if it’s your partner who suddenly finds a new best friend on Instagram?
The truth is that behavior on social networks can seriously harm the relationship, but that does not make it infidelity. Sexting with someone other than your partner can be reprehensible, cybersex too, but in reality there is no physical contact . And we already know that infidelity is not infidelity unless you get caught red-handed.