Should cheating in relationships be made illegal?

For relationship duly recognize by the law, where all parties have legal responsibilities to fulfill (ie: employer-employee trade/business partnerships, teacher-student, marriage, guardianship, etc), yes and there are already laws that recognize these issues.

Non-compliance to your contract conditions (contract that is legal and recognized by the law) are usually considered as illegal in many territories.

However not all types of human "relationships" are recognized by the law.

For example: certain relationship with individuals that are not of legal age are usually not recognize by the law. We usually have their guardian approve of them first.

"Business" relationship that involves unlawful activities are also not recognize by the law as binding (ie: loan sharking, racketeering, kill for hire businesses)

I mean it sucks but no lol

No.

Makes more sense for it to happen in marriage

My ex boyfriend cheated on me 3 times but it is what is really . Making it illegal is petty

The more of this guy's posts I see, the more he seems like an incel tbh

Intentionally misleading poll options

As always, @iknowwhoyouare at it's finest.

It shouldn’t be illegal, but it’s still a crappy and hurtful thing to do nonetheless.

No it shouldn’t be illegal

Nah, i mean its already looked down upon so i think thats enough

Obviously not lol, that would mean going backwards.

Sounds like a guy planning to cheat!

@doctordamn: Well I found out about all of the instances at the same time but still forgave him at the time so yeah I am a pretty naïve idiot for that .

Cheating is pretty hard to prove. But if you cheat in marriage, I feel like there should be a penalty.

It's wild tho, because in some instances when a chick cheats on a guy and then they separate, the guy still has to pay the chick a bunch of money just because she was at home vibing while he was working.

Like imagine this: you're a dude, you meet a girl that you love and wanna settle down with. You get a job to financially support the two of you. You work hard at the office for 5 whole years and then come home one day to surprise your wife with flowers. But when you get home, you see your wife doing the devil's tango with some random dude named "Brad" or something. You're heartbroken and you never wanna see her again so you get a divorce. But then the government calls you up and tells you that just because you made the mistake of marrying that chick, you now have to pay her HALF of everything you worked hard for. So now you get depressed, you end up moving out of the house YOU paid for and go live in a small, dirty apartment because that's the only thing you can afford after getting your soul drained out by your ex wife. Then one day you go to the house to get something your forgot. You ask permission to get into your own house and see that freaking BRAD IS NOW LIVING WITH YOUR EX WIFE. IN THE HOUSE THAT YOU PAID FOR.

So you go home and shoot yourself in the head. But guess what, you somehow couldn't even do that right. So now you have to live in a wheel chair for the rest of your life, with half your brain working, while brad over there gets to live off your hard work. Life is unfair.

For the OT: Idk man I don't really have any strong opinions on it.

@applekidthethird: Bro your imagination is actually pretty f'ing vivid wth.

No. Relationships should be built on trust not laws.

No. It will scare even more people from dating, and it will cause people to stay in abusive relationships because they are afraid of getting accused.

Guys already didn't want to date because of fake #MeToo Accusations.

Why is there a need for a law? What is the underlying reason? Another quick observation is that over 50% of male gay and bisexual relationships have cheated while in a committed relationship or marriage. Are you going to put all those gay men in jail?

@lilyeezywest: I don't even remember typing that.

Cheating is wrong, but we don't want to open that pandora's box.

Also, LOL at the OP. There can be consequences, and often are, they just aren't criminal consequences.

Looks like people here have no issue with paying alimony, child support or paternity fraud

In relationships? Like, not even in marriage, just BF/GF?

Lol no, that would be insane.

Regardless, there should be no legal consequences for adultery. People can do what they want.

Like dragging someone through family court when they were the ones cheating?

If you hurt your spouse for cheating, then it becomes a case of abuse, for which there are legal penalties.

If only that were the case

I think there are consequences in fault states. It affects the settlement in the divorce. Not sure how much if affects though. Well at least they used too.

Yeah you said it. Being illegal is going too far but there should be consequences and there is a history for it.. I'm not sure how much it factors in these days though. Very little I think. We have 12 no fault states but personally I think nobody really puts much weight cheating when the settlement comes into play. I could be wrong.

I think no fault was routed in rich men keeping their money when they divorced their wives but that's just me.

I dislike spreading negativity. But, I have to agree with you, papi...

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This...

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Maybe for marriage.

@iknowwhoyouare: What is your saltiness about? You seem to be very angry about something, with all these threads.

He's an incel.

Oof. That sucks for him ig.

There's no need to bust the guys balls, I think we can gather what happened or the gist of it.