2 Types of Adultery You Probably Didn’t Know About

Everyone knows that physical adultery is when one man or woman has chosen to physically touch another person who is not their husband or wife in a sexual way. However, there are two more subtle and sneaky ways the devil tries to deceive a husband or wife into crossing the line into adultery. Are you aware of what they are?
1. Emotional Adultery
“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.” (Proverbs 22:14)
Emotional adultery can occur when one person shares their personal thoughts, feelings, and emotions with another

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Surviving Adultery

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Adultery is devastating to any marriage, regardless of the circumstances. Unfortunately, adultery is all too common. If your spouse has committed or is committing adultery, you need to turn your feelings toward God and ask Him for wisdom and strength to do the right thing, and also ask for the ability to hear His voice in the middle of your pain and anguish.
Though there is no excuse for adultery and the offended spouse is not to blame emotional distraction and unmet needs are major contributors to the temptation of having an affair. Check yourself:

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Adultery: A Bigger Problem Than Just One Sexual Act

“‘But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person….’” – Jesus in Matthew 15:18-20a, NSRV.
While one act of adultery is horrible enough, I suspect many outsiders fail to grasp the depth of the spiritual problems present when adultery has taken place in a marriage. As I have written in other places, the spiritual reality about adultery is that it is soul rape. Yet that is merely speaking of the act of

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