“What would you do if I cheated on you…hypothetically?”
If your partner ever says something like this, then you should consider that it’s something they’re genuinely thinking about doing, or at least that they’re not happy in the relationship on its currently trajectory.
“When cheating is on the horizon, I often hear partners… list a certain kind of person, a location, time of day, or they may even name someone in their life,” says Racine Henry, Ph.D., owner of Sankofa Therapy, a New York City-based relationship therapy group. These hypothetical conversations, Henry warns, often lead to “unintentional cheating,” which both partners should be hyperaware of.
