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Patient's partner is doing things that are 'not cheating' but are, incrementally, cheating. The list has grown quietly. Liking posts. Reacting to stories. Flirty comments under a coworker's photo.
Will escalate.
None. 'That's not cheating' is the load-bearing phrase.
Patients with Chronic Micro-Cheating Escalation typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Micro-Cheating Escalation belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Infidelitas gradualis acceptabilis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.