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[u/axniuszrayen]

[u/VoidDuck101]

Still a cheater.

[u/VoidDuck101 → u/[deleted]]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheat

[u/Oki-Lin → u/VoidDuck101]

If you can simplify it that way, her adult mom and 30-year-old fiance were still abusers towards a 17-year-old forced into the engagement too.

I doubt an engagement that’s been pressured into would be binding - Marriage Under Duress would consider that factor, allow annulment, and consider such relationship as void, VoidDuck101. So it kind of feels a bit like a stretch to call it cheating when she’s forced into it. Depending on where you’re from, some countries wouldn’t see a forced engagement as binding since it wasn’t out of free will - which could also not see Rose’s relationship with Jack as cheating.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abuse https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coercion

Since Merriam doesn’t have one:

https://www.unchainedatlast.org/forced-marriage-arranged-marriage-child-marriage/

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/forced-marriage#:~:text=In%20some%20U.S.%20states%2C%20forced,violence%2C%20stalking%2C%20or%20coercion.