Thursday, 21 July 2011

Cheating Text Messages Can Destroy Trust

By Amie Rutledge


The growth of mobile phone technology incorporates the ability to exchange written messages. This process is called texting and is accomplished via SMS, a popular service protocol developed in 2005, with a global market of 2.4 billion users. Socially interactive messages with sexual context are referred to as sexting. Cheating text messages are considered such when either or both participants are engaged in another committed, romantic relationship.

The convenience of texting made mobile phone technology a valuable, irreplaceable communication tool. Instant camera access, as part of mobile phone devices, redefined worldwide communication capabilities. When used to relay pornographic, prurient or sexual images, mobile phone technology opened a can of worms with legal and moral implications.

The social implications of sexually based messaging present the dilemma of material that can be easily accessed and widely propagated without the consent of the originator. For good or bad, many well-known faces have had their privates lives turned public, with marriages and careers destroyed, through the exposure of sexually charged text messaging.

Chexting is the latest term for sexually intimate messages exchanged between an unfaithful spouse with someone other than their marital partner over mobile phone devices. Technology allows communication when voice calls are unacceptable or impossible.

For all the advantages technology brings to the world, there are those that demean its intent through misuse. The seven states that still uphold alienation of affection laws have seen a rise in cases where the injured party discovered chexting activity by their partner with an outsider. An increase in suicides in young people that were victimized by sexting illustrates the devastating consequences of betrayal, creating the need for new ideologies in law.

A loving, marital relationship that is damaged via alienation of affections as a result of interference by an outsider has just cause to file suit in the 7-states that uphold this law. These states validate the destructive impact of emotional affairs, irrespective of physical involvement. A recent North Carolina lawsuit resulted in a $9 million award for damages to the injured spouse, validating the deleterious consequences of chexting.

Confidence in love is sustained through openness and trust. When trust is violated through the discovery of cheating text messages, the emotional bond between a committed couple is broken and intimacy dissolves. The foundation of love can be shaken at its core and security gone with the realization that your once trusted partner has engaged in dishonest behavior, leaving the relationship in ruins.




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