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of fantasy, which would be impossible to compete with in the real world.

It can be totally crushing to experience the fact that your partner would rather spend time secretly talking to a faceless person on the Internet rather than spending this precious time with you. It can be demoralising, extremely hurtful, and very damaging to your relationship, to think that they could so easily crush your trust for the sake of an online fling.

- You cannot see the emotional attachment, but you can see the evidence of it -

Does your partner become agitated, fidgety and distracted after checking their emails and messages? - Do they go into another room to compose and send a text? - Do they get up in the morning before you, to send an email? - Do they hurriedly send messages or emails when you leave the room, or are having a bath? - Do they quickly close windows or change tabs as you enter the room? - Do they take the computer to another room, closing the door? Is their computer password protected? - Are they guarded and secretive all of a sudden?

All these things could' be evidence that they are deceiving you, and are in fact involved in an online relationship. Of course it may not, but these pointers do often seem to be common and recurring giveaways in Online cheating case studies.

Now you could always try talking to your partner about the matter; just ask them. But what's the betting that you won't get a straight or honest answer.

On the other hand, if you have it out with them, and they admit it, and they say they will never do it again, yet continue to do so. Even though they know how upset it has all made you. I think that then is the grounds for serious dismissal. Once a cheater always cheater so they say. If you are living with, married to, or a fiance of; think to yourself, surely your partner would not be so stupid as to risk losing you, for the sake of a shallow online affair? - Or would they?

At the end of the day it's a question of trust in a loving relationship, and if one partner feels the need to cross the boundaries of what is acceptable and decent, then they may just have to face the consequences, as you both become yet another sad statistic of casual Online cheating. Many a relationship has been destroyed in this way. After all, if you can't trust your partner...

What is there left to salvage?... And, would you really want to?

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