Marriage And Infidelity: Wake of Damage

When two people are married they enter into an association that each hope will be a life time of sharing their lives and experiences with someone they can love, trust and grow old with. Most couples desire to build a strong, happy relationship that will foster a happy, healthy environment to raise children while also providing a comfortable home for them to escape the everyday pressures of the rest of the world.

However, with the busy lives people lead today, more time is spent away from their partners and in the company of others that often provide temptation for some individuals to seek the companionship of someone other than the person they have promised themselves to.

This busy, hectic lifestyle has led many people, both men and women, down the path of marital infidelity that may have otherwise remained faithful to their spouses and their marriage vows. With less time spent with their partners and families, cheating spouses often don’t see the harm their extra marital affairs can cause to their marriages simply because of how convenient the opportunity for temptation may have been.

Regardless, as to why someone may have entered into infidelity;marriage is a commitment that requires dedication from both partners to keep the pledges they made to each other when they were joined in the union of marriage.

To understand why marriage and infidelity cannot coexist in a relationship, it must be understood that every marriage bond is made up of three basic components; these are love, trust and intimacy, with each being just as important to the health of the marriage union as the others.

Infidelity in a marriagereplaces the closeness between the married couple with intimacy between the cheating spouses and their new found lovers, thus weakening the confidence between the married partners. Once this aspect of the relationship has been disturbed it directly affects the ties of trust and love. Where trust being the hardest and most time consuming to rebuild after the fact. And, love being the most durable attribute of a couples association, once gone, leaves no chance of rebuilding the relationship.

This is why marital infidelity is so damaging to a good relationship. It’s not just only a betrayal of trust, or love, or intimacy, but of all three aspects of the marriage union with one single action of deceit.

Unfortunately, most people find out the consequence of the damage caused by infidelity in a marriage only after marital infidelity has caused its wake of destruction in their relationship.

Todd Hill and Phyllis Stein-Hill are marriage counselors extraordinaire. For more great information on marriage and infidelity, visit their website http://www.MarriageAndInfidelitySecrets.comand subscribe to their FREE email mini course, “TEN KEY SECRETS OF INFIDELITY AND YOUR MARRIAGE”. Also, get Todd and Phyllis’s latest eBook “Surviving an Unfaithful Spouse”for even more valuable information.