Soft Cheating Isn’t Cheating—It’s Attention Infidelity (And It’s Already Changing Your Relationship) (opens in new tab)

It rarely starts with something you can point to. No message that crosses a line. No moment you can replay and say, that was it. It starts with a shift you can feel but can’t quite prove. What People Mean by “Soft Cheating” Online, “soft cheating” has become shorthand for behavior that feels off but doesn’t qualify as an affair: * a little too much engagement with one person * a tone in messages that doesn’t quite belong * a pattern that’s easy to dismiss and hard to ignore The conversation t...