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Well, today we're going to be addressing the difficult topic of a marital affair and the

damage it can do to a relationship.

Now, many of us know someone in this very situation. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley,

who heads up the marriage team here at the ministry. And Greg, Aaron is unable to be here. She's not

feeling well. She's under the weather. Don't like that not at all i'm not i'm not i'm not

sure what to say then if she's not here well tell me what to well we'll uh will assume that you can

lean in on this certainly you've done plenty of work with couples and you've done a lot of research

here um this matter of marital affairs this is way more prevalent than a lot of us think yeah

you know the the, the,

the estimates anywhere from 15 to 25 percent, and that's probably when it goes to a full-blown

physical affair. So then adding even more of an emotional affair, and those numbers are probably

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