They have established it so many times that Clint and Nat were family. They trained together, they worked at SHIELD together, they went on missions together, etc. His kids call her Aunt Nat! And the requisites for getting a soul stone is sacrificing a soul you hold dear. His wife and kids were gone, but not his entire family. Nat was still there. And as for Nat, Clint is the only thing she has as family. Cap is a friend, a good friend. Hulk and her are will they, won't they. Tony and her are also good friends. Fury respects her and she respects him.
Clint is more than that and it has been shown. He's family.

No matter whether you sacrifice your parent, or your partner, or your sibling, or your kid. You will get the soul stone. That doesn't mean you are emotionally cheating on your spouse.

If the stone strictly abides by romantic love, that puts Thanos and Gamora in a much darker light. Lol

I just meant that Clint probably loved his wife or kids the most..

But they were already lost to the snap, isn't that kind of the point.

It was the point. To Clint he had lost everything except Natasha so he was willing to go but for her, if it all worked, Clint would leave a family without a father but she would not be missed.
WTF is emotionally cheating anyway? Is that a thing? People are attracted to others and get crushes outside of their relationships all the time. Acting on it is cheating, not the feeling.

Emotional cheating is actively involving someone in your emotional matters or decisions while leaving the person you are in relationship with, out of it and probably only having sex with them. People don't right away have sex in emotional cheating, it's happens when people fail to communicate. The person just goes to someone else for their emotional needs.

Sounds like splitting hairs to me. There is no betrayal in seeking emotional support outside of your relationship. Under the assumption that you are still providing emotional support for your partner it doesn’t detract from them at all. While not totally healthy I think it’s pretty far from what could be categorized as cheating.

I'm with you @scatmandingo, emotional cheating? dafuq, sounds like something a chick made up just so she could give her spouse shit

You’re not supposed to call broads “chicks” anymore, I don’t think.

Y'all watch House? When Taub's wife starts doing it on him?

@scatmandingo I don't care lol @spookykink57 I love House, but what specifically are you talking about?

You know Dr. Taub in House. The season when he gets introduced and we get to know that he's a serial cheater and then her wife realises it and they decide to work on things. But, then she meets this guy on Facebook and they start talking and suddenly his wife stays really happy and has a lot of sex with him, he thinks something's suspicious and hr finds out about this. Turns out, she was happy because she was talking to some other dude. After a while the guy comes to their city and she gets together with him and divorces Taub.

It's in season 7, not 5

He got a bunch of sex and out of a bad relationship. Also, he could go back to being a wealthy plastic surgeon and bang all the side tail he wants after she left. What’s the downside?

Forsure, I remember the serial cheater part, forgot about the FB wife thing.

The downside is, he lost his 20 something year of marriage.

But he got better towards the end, so that's cool.

Better*

20 days or 20 years, if the people don’t want to be together they are better off apart. Staying in a relationship just because you’ve been in it a long time is like continuing to bet in poker when you know you don’t have the best hand just because you’ve already put a lot of money in the pot.