By Joe Harker Is your partner ‘micro-cheating?’ My interview with LADbible reveals the difference between flirting and micro-cheating (and what you can do to stop it). What’s the difference between flirting and micro-cheating? Depending on who you ask flirting is micro-cheating, so there's not a great deal of distance between them. However, micro-cheating is a wider-ranging thing that covers more bases in possible emotional infidelity. Relationship expert, Susan Winter, told The Independent that micro-cheating was "certainly testing the borders of emotional cheating," and flirting "is [...]