Two people who once set aside mutual feelings later reconnect and find those feelings return while both remain in separate committed relationships. They want to avoid infidelity and formal emotional affairs, even while acknowledging ongoing sexual tension. They sometimes write stories together that include more intimate scenes and ask whether that counts as infidelity, especially if the characters’ dynamics are fictional and neither person is expressing real selves. A romcom scene in The Worst Person in the World shows partners absent while characters test boundaries through escalating physical acts that stop short of kissing, including drinking from each other’s drink, caressing shoulders, close face contact, biting, smelling armpits, and peeing in the same room.
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