The growth of mobile phone technology incorporates the ability to exchange written messages. This process is called texting and is accomplished via SMS, a popular service protocol developed in 2005, with a global market of 2.4 billion users. Socially interactive messages with sexual context are referred to as sexting. Cheating text messages are considered such when either or both participants are engaged in another committed, romantic relationship.

Texting has opened the door to ultimate convenience in communications. Mobile phones are now widely available accessorized with an instant camera, enabling transmissions of images and videos. With advancements in technology there exists the inherent inappropriate misuse that can be detrimental or inflict harm, creating the need for new laws addressing issues related to damages.

The world is seeing disastrous consequences affecting public figures that were not circumspect with their sexual proclivities while texting. Compulsiveness and poor impulse control has resulted in many, formerly respected, powerful, well-known personalities on the tail end of jokes, humiliation and scorn, which not only affected their lives, but loved ones.

Chexting is the latest term for sexually intimate messages exchanged between an unfaithful spouse with someone other than their marital partner over mobile phone devices. Technology allows communication when voice calls are unacceptable or impossible.

The dawn of the Internet age and the popularity of social networking has made \’airing your dirty laundry\’ a global event. It is easy and feels, deceptively, discreet and impersonal. The validity of viewing chexting as cheating is in the fact that seven states still allow spouses to file \’alienation of affection\’ suits against alleged paramours who have interfered in a primary relationship. Today there are search sites that scan the social networks tracking the suspected cheater\’s online trail of activities.

Alienation of affections does not require proof of extramarital sex to be a litigious offense. Validity is proven when a loving married relationship is negatively influenced by an outside third person\’s interference with one spouse victimized by the others lack of affection. The legal consequences give credence to the devastating impact of emotional betrayal on a committed relationship through sexual messaging to one or more extraneous parties.

Confidence in love is sustained through openness and trust. When trust is violated through the discovery of cheating text messages, the emotional bond between a committed couple is broken and intimacy dissolves. The foundation of love can be shaken at its core and security gone with the realization that your once trusted partner has engaged in dishonest behavior, leaving the relationship in ruins.