Is it cheating when the husband disregards pleas by the wife to help figure ways to connect better in their marriage? Isn't he taking the easy way out.....like when a student gets the answers to the test rather than studying?
Honestly I think that depends on the wife's expectations of what she's implying by "ways to connect better in their marriage". For some women, it's pretty unrealistically demanding AND is tied in with materialism.
I'm another one who sees emotional infidelity as the hardest to deal with. I have a policy that someone can be an asshole once and be forgiven (within reason), so a one off won't kill the relationship. A long term affair, or an emotional affair that leads to estrangement in the primary relationship will damage it, potentially kill it. If I had a partner who was having one night stand after one night stand, I'd be gone. (With a stop at the clinic on my way out of town).