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Micro-cheating involves subtle behaviors that can undermine trust and intimacy in a relationship. Recognizing these signs is crucial to maintaining a healthy and honest connection with your partner.

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Micro-Cheating: Subtle Signs of Emotional Infidelity

  1. Secret Messaging: When you secretly message someone, keeping the conversations hidden from your partner.

  2. Venting About Your Partner: Talking negatively about your partner to others behind their back.

  3. Attractive Friendships: Seeking friendships with people you find attractive.

  4. Staying in Touch with Exes: Maintaining contact with exes or people you used to flirt with.

  5. Lying About Relationship Status: Misrepresenting your relationship status both online and offline.

  6. Being Overly Touchy: Engaging in excessive physical contact with someone who isn’t your partner.

  7. Engaging on Social Media: Liking and commenting on social media posts from someone your partner feels uneasy about.

  8. Impressing Others: Trying to impress someone other than your partner.

  9. Secretive Friendships: Having a friendship that you keep hidden from your partner.

Checking Up on Others: Constantly checking up on someone you find attractive.

Liking and Commenting: Always liking and commenting on someone’s photos.

  1. Leaning on Others: Relying on someone else for emotional support when your relationship hits a rough patch.

  2. Daydreaming: Fantasizing about someone you have a crush on.

  3. Close Opposite-Sex Friendships: Maintaining a very close friendship with someone of the opposite sex while in a committed relationship.

Micro-cheating involves subtle behaviors that can undermine trust and intimacy in a relationship. Recognizing these signs is crucial to maintaining a healthy and honest connection with your partner.

Navigating Between Soul and Ego: Finding Peace in Relationships

between my soul and my ego is crucial. My ego is the part of me that feels betrayed, hurt, and wronged because it’s tied to how I’m seen by the world. It’s not just about being the best, most beautiful, or most successful; it can also be about being the most betrayed, wronged, or abused. We often hold onto these identities because they define how we relate to others and ourselves.

There are valid reasons why we don’t get along with everyone in life. But on a soul level, as I was reminded by listening to Ram Dass’ “E Forest” song today, souls love each other beyond identity and story. When we move past the “you did this to me” narrative, we find that our souls simply love each other, and all the ego-driven conflicts fall away.

However, we live in a 3D world, dealing with human beings, not just souls. Both the soul and the ego exist within us, and navigating this duality can be challenging. We fumble through the process of learning to repair and find peace in our relationships, especially with those closest to us, like our parents.

Achieving harmony requires recognizing when our ego is at play and allowing our soul’s love to guide us. It’s about finding balance, understanding that while our ego may feel wronged, our soul seeks connection and love. By acknowledging both aspects, we can work towards peaceful relationships and inner tranquility.

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