How to Catch a Cheating Spouse
If your spouse is cheating on you, it may be best to find out early so you can deal with it.
A high percentage of divorces begin with the Internet — Internet affairs, Internet pornography, sexual addictions and such that lead to a rendezvous. And it may be best to catch this problem and deal with it fast rather than let it go on.
Loss of Intimacy
No person can have a truly intimate relationship when there are secrets and lies covering unfaithfulness of any kind. The first loss that takes place is the loss of integrity, character, and salvation, and with it comes the loss of intimacy. No longer is there openness between you and your spouse. Just a charade. A facade. A cover up.
Disease
Sexual activity outside marriage can lead to disease and death and leave children orphaned. AIDS, Hepatitis, Gonorrhea, Herpes, HPV, PID, Syphilis, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis, Bacterial Vaginosis, and such could leave you forced to take painful medical procedures regularly for life.
Betrayal and Family Destruction
Living in denial not only endangers us to the possibility of serious disease and death, but also gives the unfaithful and their partners ample time to plan a betrayal, a divorce, a destruction of the family in a way that limits their losses and maximizes your losses and the losses of your children.
Often, affair partners plot to justify and excuse their sin, and if it looks like they may be in trouble, they will prepare together for war long before you are aware and able to prepare. Chances are you will be hit hard and unexpectedly by two people ganging up on you when you are at your weakest point overwhelmed with pain and heartbreak, worried for your children, desperate to save the marriage, and more inclined to beg and plead than to hold your spouse accountable and come down hard as you should.
In Michigan, a law was uncovered that could cause the unfaithful to be charged with a first degree felony that could land them in prison with a life sentence. It seems that this law has not yet been applied, but if it were, it might bring sufficient intimidation and discomfort to the guilty parties to cause them to beg to take responsibility in some other way.
It may be very hard to come down hard on one’s unfaithful spouse. When we took the vows, we promised to love faithfully, and our feelings are usually soft toward our spouse. Unfaithful spouses usually take advantage of this. If they did not feel save to commit adultery or to abandon one relationship for another, they would never do so. Adultery is the ultimate expression of cowardice, and it is shown well in the way the unfaithful brutalize the family and the children an the abandoned spouse heartlessly and demand to be “forgiven”, approved, validated, sheltered, and rewarded for doing so.
Break Free From the Affair is a download-able book that can help you gain victory if your spouse is unfaithful. It can help save your marriage if possible and make sure affairs don’t happen again.
Anatomy of an Affair is also a good e-book for learning why affairs happen, how they take place, their signs, and how to save the marriage or end it in your favor as much as possible should the marriage not be savable.