Adultery

Committing adultery is not uncommon to say the least. Adultery seems more rampant than ever these days. Society has come up with phrases which excuse or soften the perception of adultery such as: fooling around, sleeping around, having a fling or an affair. These phrases try to justify adultery as being guilt-free and as if it hurts no one when in actuality it hurts all involved. Adultery shatters trust, intimacy, self-esteem; it breaks up families, ruins careers and leaves a trail of pain and destruction in its path.

For men and women there are many reasons they have committed or are committing adultery. For the most part many who have affairs have a good sex life but come from marriages with little of no intimacy. When a spouses needs are not met many marriages tend to become more vulnerable to an extramarital affair. Often the failure of men and women to meet

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Society in any case is unable to enforce a rule that the majority of people break, and infidelity is so common it is no longer deviant. In truly strong, well-founded marriages, adultery is laughed at as the pitiful last resort of people who are too immature or too incapable of intimacy to understand what marriage really is. Willard Harley, a wife has five main needs as the same for a husband. He proclaims that if these five needs go unmet then a spouse is more easily tempted of an affair. When studies were done to see how many couples remain together after the discovery of an adulterous affair, statistics proved that only about 35 percent of couples remain together where the other 65 percent divorce. The Developing Person Through the

Life Span. To me adultery means the irretrievable loss of love!

References

Americans for Divorce Reform. These needs go unmet everyday between married couples because men and women categorize the importance of their needs differently. Divorce Statistic

Collection Summary of Findings So Far.

Those who commit adultery have claimed that an affair can revive a dull marriage, make you a better lover, help you with mid-life crisis, bring joy into your life or even bring excitement back into your marriage. I challenge the notion that even the happiest of couples is vulnerable to the creeping evil of adultery.

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