But, you see, that’s the thing. Cheating is a very personal thing to define. What’s cheating to one person isn’t for another. I’ve totally read fics where the writer used the infidelity tag and a reader was like “i don’t think this is cheating?” And I’ve also seen the opposite. It’s this really tricky area that isn’t always easy to pinpoint.

That’s definitely true. It’s one of those things where what’s cool in fiction is different than what’s cool IRL too. Like, I’d be soooo pissed if half the things that I’ve read (or written lbr) happened to me but because it’s fiction it’s not that big of a deal. Most of the time.