If there is one spiritual emotion that defines cheating it is the feeling of powerlessness.

A person who cheats feels powerless. Not the type of power you may be thinking of.

Sex with others outside of the relationship can never satiate this feeling.

It is emotionally and spiritually impossible to have a sexual connection with a human being and not ignite certain emotional patterns, but they are continual dead-end streets when there is no relationship or true emotional feelings to go with the act.

Therefore, there is a level of brutality, frustration, and eventually emotional disease which results in physical illness and breakdown because a significant pattern is being tremendously abused.

Remember, you do get what you ask for.

Asking for love is asking for the energy of the soul. It brings with it a genuine concern for the other. You cannot prey upon someone else who feels powerless as you, when another's well-being is in you heart.