cheating spouse
Betraying married person
A cheating spouse is a husband or wife who has sex or a romantic relationship with someone outside their marriage.
The phrase appears constantly in advice columns, divorce proceedings, and private investigator advertisements: She hired someone to follow her cheating spouse.
The term presumes monogamy as the default expectation.
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
- secret affairConcealed romantic relationship
- emotional affairNon-physical romantic betrayal
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
adultery · unfaithful · other woman · lies · secrets · mistress · lover · heartbreak · divorce · divorce lawyer · marriage counseling · second chance · trust · suspicious · caught · hotel · texts · lipstick
- infidelityadultery, affair, adulteress, cheating, affairs
- Private InvestigatorsPI, private detective, detective agency, gumshoe, shamus
- cheaterscon artist, swindler, deceiver, fraud, liar