I’d like you to consider fidelity in terms of what it means to your couple bubble. Because both your and your partner’s safety and security—your very survival—depend on mutual conservatorship, you can view fidelity as synonymous with couple bubble. Sexual infidelity is an obvious breach of fidelity. But so, for example, are the following: Emotional closeness with a third that leaves you or your partner out in the cold Sharing of one partner’s secrets with a third Flirting online or sexting with a third Office romances or over-the-top flirting Use of pornography that excludes the other partner
