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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing Infidelity in Fic

[(Anonymous)]

Cheating is a thing that happens, OP. Sometimes, it's even a thing that happens for legitimate reasons, such as a couple being together for political or social reasons rather than for love. Cheating is not always a case of one person leaving a happy relationship, as most people portray it to be. More often than not, a cheater cheats because there is something about the other person that fulfills something they were missing from the first relationship.

It can be as simple as a sexual reason (ex. that other person could share a kink that their spouse is unwilling to fulfill) or as complex as an emotional need. My current favorite OTP is an m/m relationship where one partner is a very traditional (albeit bisexual) father who remains married for the sake of not losing contact with his daughter. The way I write it, he doesn't even mention his marriage to the man who is his lover, just keeps all of the contact in the guise of a job that keeps him away from home for weeks at a time.

You don't necessarily have to harsh anyone's squee to write about cheating, but it's better to handle it realistically than to gloss it over. The best relationships to read about can be the messy, complicated ones. It also doesn't preclude fluff, haha.

Hope that helps.