Can God Heal the Betrayal?
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Adultery does great damage to a marriage, and it's strongly warned about in the Bible. Pastor Rick and Tiffany Bulman discuss what happened after her affair with a friend came to light. Also, John and the Smalley's share about what you can do, if you're wondering if you'll ever trust your mate again.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
| 0:21.0 | give families hope and when you give today your donation will be doubled. |
| 0:26.0 | Donate at focus on the family.com slash gift. All throughout scripture were warned about the dangers of adultery and |
| 0:40.2 | while the effects of an affair are devastating, it isn't necessarily a death sentence for your relationship. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron, who head up our focus marriage department and Greg, one are the numbers say about how many couples who experience |
| 0:57.8 | infidelity end up getting divorced? Yeah the research shows now again |
| 1:01.9 | let me preface research is looking at a particular group. |
| 1:06.7 | So this particular study was looking at all marriages in the US, Christian, non-Christian. But I'm telling you John the encouraging news is, well let me give you the bad news first that four in ten marriages will experience some sort of infidelity. The good news is out of these more than 50% of those |
| 1:26.8 | marriages stay together. So that's looking at all marriages in the US. We see this all the time through Hope Restored is there really truly is hope. |
| 1:37.2 | I know Aaron within her counseling practice working with couples all the time that |
| 1:42.0 | present with infidelity is what with is years as far as a journey together but we can get there and actually have a |
| 1:56.5 | better marriage on the other side of that and that's the encouraging news there is |
| 2:01.5 | always hope. Yeah the stats on couples who go |
| 2:05.0 | through the hope restored marriage intensives are so encouraging |
| 2:09.1 | 80% stay together of those who are surveyed two years after going through the program. |
| 2:14.3 | Well in the point being don't do this alone. |
| 2:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:17.8 | Like after infidelity comes out, don't isolate, don't hide, say let's go now and get the help even though we're hurt and angry and feel betrayed and all those emotions, go get help. There is help out there. Yeah. Well we are a phone call away check the |
| 2:35.3 | show notes for contact information and for immediate help. Let's go ahead now and |
| 2:40.3 | hear more from Rick and Tiffany Bull Bowman who shared with Jim Daly about the hope |
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