Apologies. That was the exact wording. In other words he was being asked if he was having an affair with his wife, behind the back of the secretary. He cheated with the secretary behind the back of one of his wife’s underlings. He cheated on the wife with the underling.
Do not ask me. That was Person B’s words. I was just a bystander in a semi-hilarious discussion. That’s the only bit of conversation that I could remember. Sorry.
Let me add this. If I understand it, he has an affair with his wife’s intern. He then screws his secretary. I’m not sure that counts as cheating on the intern, assuming he is still married. Same thing with the secretary. The only person being cheated on is the wife.
I somewhat disagree. If he promises the intern that he is being faithful to her, and then breaks that promise, then I see no difference in whether the guy was married or not.
All cheating is is breaking a promise to be faithful. The only difference here is that, when you are married, there’s an default assumption of being faithful, while, in an affair, the promise would pretty much have to be explicit.
IOW, the only way I agree with you is if no one has promised anything.
I think the technical term at that point is horndog and you no longer worry about the relationships between the people - unless they are actually closer than second cousins.
It’s possible that there were previous marriages involved, and that the cad in question has a history of leaving his (current) wife to marry his (current) mistress.
What movie does this remind me of? It’s Scarlet Johannson as an up-and-coming singer, boffing her manager <or someone like that>, and he’s supposedly not getting on with his wife. Then his wife visits his office as Scarlet and he are getting busy, and the wife wants to boff, so they boff while Scarlet’s in the closet.