18/02/2019
EMOTIONAL INFIDELITY (1)
Job 31:1, Matthew 5:28
The topic of discussion here is both timely and crucial. Our focus is to arrest one of the weapons Satan uses to put homes asunder, which is EMOTIONAL INFIDELITY. This can also mean emotional adultery as described in Matthew 5:28. The two words are crucial and their combinations makes it more sensitive.
Emotional affairs appear to be on the increase while infidelity is a betrayal of ones partner.
Emotional infidelity occurs when one puts another opposite s*x ahead of his/her spouse. This becomes an issue because your emotional feelings belonging to your partner is been stolen by an outsider and when this happens, it causes a great havoc to marriage.
The following are some of the red light (characteristics) of emotional infidelity:
1. Frequency of special and expensive gifts: when an opposite s*x begins to shower you with expensive gifts on a constant basis, know that it is a signal of emotional infidelity.
2. Horrible fights that often begin with small and trivial issues: issues are meant to be discussed and settled as soon as possible. Stop aggravating small issues. Work and walk over them, don't let small issues work you over.
3. Deleting of e-mail, contacts and messages on your phone: when you begin to keep secret away from your spouse, you are no more loyal to your marital vows.
4. When you seem less comfortable around your spouse especially when your phone rings.
5. When you spend unnecessary time on phone or computer especially when your spouse has gone to bed: when you begin to keep late hour to talk to opposite s*x when your husband is already asleep.
1. Mid life crisis: this usually happen to people from age 40
2. Adventure: it occurs due to passion for fresh relationship to try out personality.
3. Social friendship
4. Revenge: infidelity often occurs when one partner wants to revenge what the wrong the other partner has committed.
5. Romantic pleasure and outright lust
With all the cases of infidelity around us, there are solutions. The following are few of the solutions to Infidelity.
1. Prevention and avoidance of whatever can result to emotional infidelity: flee all the appearance of evil.
2. Define all your relationship with opposite s*x.
3. Rekindle and sparkle your love with your spouse.
4. Be open to your spouse on all issues.
Prevention they say is better than cure and only a wise will see danger ahead and avoid it. Whatever that bleeds the heart of God is a poison to our destiny. Emotional infidelity is a poison to your destiny, flee it before it destroy your home, life and destiny