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Would you consider swapping nudes and messaging someone daily for months cheating?

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Thewovendiary · 15/02/2026 13:07

I’m shamelessly posting here for more traffic (have posted in relationships)

I’m so upset to find out that my partner has been messaging another woman for months and swapping multiple nude photos - I feel he is now gaslighting me and minimising the situation - he says there was no physical intimacy so it’s not cheating.

Please help me :( feel like I’ve been gut punched - I thought we were so happy

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outerspacepotato · 15/02/2026 14:18

He knows her awfully well if he knows how to contact her father and boss to send the criminal revenge porn.

He threatened his affair partner with a criminal act if she disclosed the affair.

He's been giving her money. Check your accounts ASAP.

Your partner has shown you a nice facade until now and you see that he's capable of some nasty and vicious acts under that facade. Run.

BeGentleMentor · 15/02/2026 14:18

Well, yes. Obviously.

Pinkissmart · 15/02/2026 14:17

It’s cheating, a betrayal and a complete disrespect for you and your relationship.

If he tries to roll out that ‘not cheating’ bs, ask him if he feels it was respectful. If he was treating you with respect.

What a twat

TwistedWonder · 15/02/2026 14:14

Thewovendiary · 15/02/2026 14:00

At the risk of me sounding like a total idiot - he told me she’d been blackmailing him for money and that’s why he was speaking to her? Realise that sounds totally far fetched

He’s a lying cunt. Yes you do sound ridiculously naive if you believe that bollocks.

He is taking you for a complete mug if that’s the best he can come up with.

AngelinaFibres · 15/02/2026 14:13

Thewovendiary · 15/02/2026 14:07

Well I messaged her and she told me he had told her he would send her pictures to her boss & dad if she told me!

Oh he is a peach isn't he. Get rid

holdtheline11 · 15/02/2026 14:12

i don't think its exactly the same as cheating but it's awful also and in a different way especially as over months. You are in your right to vall it cheating and his reaction is even more telling imo. What I always do with men is swap positions - I.e. how would he feel in the same position? But yes your feelings and the betrayal does not hinge on whether or not it sits within the definition of 'cheating' - don't let him misdirect you by focusing on semantics. But it's bad enough without needing to be called cheating imo.

outerspacepotato · 15/02/2026 14:11

That's revenge porn and it's a crime.

Just dump. He's a lying cheater and he's not going to change.

Thewovendiary · 15/02/2026 14:07

outerspacepotato · 15/02/2026 14:04

He's being blackmailed to sext her?

Girl. He's a lying cheater and that's a whopper. He thinks you're dumb or desperate because that's bonkers.

He might have been giving her money and this is his cover story.

Well I messaged her and she told me he had told her he would send her pictures to her boss & dad if she told me!

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outerspacepotato · 15/02/2026 14:04

He's being blackmailed to sext her?

Girl. He's a lying cheater and that's a whopper. He thinks you're dumb or desperate because that's bonkers.

He might have been giving her money and this is his cover story.

Thewovendiary · 15/02/2026 14:00

At the risk of me sounding like a total idiot - he told me she’d been blackmailing him for money and that’s why he was speaking to her? Realise that sounds totally far fetched

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HereAreYourOptions · 15/02/2026 13:55

Does it matter what he or you call it? Do you really want to stay with a man who does this?

outerspacepotato · 15/02/2026 13:53

He's sexually interacting with another woman so yes, he's cheating and it's an ongoing affair.

OneNewLeader · 15/02/2026 13:51

With physical evidence it doesn’t really matter what he says, it’s how you feel about it.

Don’t stay, it will almost certainly get worse for you.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 15/02/2026 13:42

If they are normal friendship photos he’ll be happy to send them to all of his friends.
His lying and gaslighting is unforgivable and that’s without the cheating.

SandrenaIsMyBloodType · 15/02/2026 13:42

Is he trying to suggest that it’s NOT cheating? That would cause me to absolutely rage. Cheating could break my heart but honestly, gaslighting me and trying to argue that this wasn’t cheating would make me so angry that it would make the decision really straightforward.

If you said to him, “ oh I didn’t know that sending nudes and messaging other people was allowed in our relationship, I’ll crack on and send some to the guy that always flirts with me at work”, I don’t suppose he’d like that.

Endofyear · 15/02/2026 13:30

Yes it's cheating and FYI he would absolutely consider it cheating if you were doing it! Dump immediately and be glad that you've found out so you don't waste another minute of your life with this arsehole!

Ferrfoxache · 15/02/2026 13:30

Dump The Fuckin Scumbag !! What else is he doing that you've NOT YET found out about ? Because it's a dead cert he's doing more than this.

Velvetgoldmine · 15/02/2026 13:30

EmBear91 · 15/02/2026 13:09

Yes, this is cheating and a complete lack of respect and care for you or the relationship. The fact that he is trying to get away with it based on a technicality is all the more disgusting & shows that he has no remorse. I’m so sorry that you are going through this but please do leave this horrible man.

This.

Harrietsaunt · 15/02/2026 13:29

Yes I would.

Tbh it’s irrelevant what label you put on his behaviour. If you don’t want to be in a relationship with someone who behaves like this, it’s your prerogative to end things.

HeadyLamarr · 15/02/2026 13:27

Ask yourself how he would react if you'd been swapping nude photographs with a bloke at work...

100% cheating.
I'm so sorry. Get rid of him.

xOlive · 15/02/2026 13:27

I’d consider one nude and one message on one day cheating so…
He’s a prick for doing it but an absolute fucking dickhead for trying to make out like he hasn’t done anything wrong.
Throw him the whole way out the door.

ScarlettSarah · 15/02/2026 13:26

Ileithyia · 15/02/2026 13:19

Who the fuck has voted YABU? I hope it was a mistake.

yes @Thewovendiary it’s 100% cheating. Ditch him right now.

I would only vote YABU as in 'YABU to stay with this lying, cheating POS'!'

SalmonOnFinnCrisp · 15/02/2026 13:25

Your initial reaction is the correct one
It's cheating and not okay.

He knows this himself and is just chatting shit to you.
He'd like go wild if you did the same.

100% bin him

ScarlettSarah · 15/02/2026 13:25

I consider it cheating. But that doesn't matter. What matters is what YOU think. His argument is a nonsense anyway - you can break up with him for any reason you want, cheating or no cheating. You don't have to have some kind of proof his behaviour is bad enough.

rwalker · 15/02/2026 13:23

Whats the need to label it
anything other than unacceptable

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