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You cheat on the internet with your heart - engaging in intimate conversation with someone who is not your spouse and instead of your spouse. Before someone cheats on a spouse, their hearts have gone before their bodies did. People think that since it's on-line and not in person it's not cheating, but it has essentially the same effects as if it were.

I hope I'm not being misunderstood, but I'm not advocating "net police", or even saying that being on a forum like this is cheating. I'm specifically talking about married people meeting people of the opposite sex on-line, and that it's bad and wrong. That's all.

You cheat on the internet with your heart - engaging in intimate conversation with someone who is not your spouse and instead of your spouse.

I'm troubled by your equivalence of thought and deed. Lustful thoughts are the moral equivalent of lustful acts. Every human has lustful thoughts -- therefore every human is guilty of marital infidelity.

So we get two worlds from your view -- one world where your followers are always miserable and self-loathing because they know they are unfaithful to anyone they've ever loved. The other world where, heck, if that's cheatin' and I'm guilty of it, I might as well go the whole way on the same nickel.

Before someone cheats on a spouse, their hearts have gone before their bodies did.

Their hearts were gone before they turned on the computer the first time.

I'm specifically talking about married people meeting people of the opposite sex on-line, and that it's bad and wrong.

I think it means they didn't marry well. That happens, a lot.