Restoring Your Marriage After an Affair (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Infidelity can rip a marriage apart — and it’s hard to imagine a betrayal more painful than finding out your spouse is involved with someone else. Josh and Katie Walters share the story of Katie’s affair with the husband of their good friend couple, and how Katie vacillated for quite a while, torn between doing the right thing (ending the affair) and still feeling love for the other man. Meanwhile, Josh was convinced by God that divorce was wrong and he needed to love Katie as Christ loves the Church, which meant pushing through the pain and hoping against hope to rescue his marriage. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine having a conversation with a hurting friend who feels like something is off in their marriage. |
| 0:11.6 | Their spouse seems distant and maybe even is involved with somebody else. |
| 0:16.9 | And then, what if in that moment you discover your spouse is the someone else and your spouse is being unfaithful to you. |
| 0:25.0 | That's our topic today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and thanks for joining us. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:31.0 | John research shows us that certainly infidelity is one of several reasons divorce can |
| 0:36.8 | happen, but this is probably the most critical thing that can happen. |
| 0:41.6 | Even the Bible talks about this as the one reason people can |
| 0:45.8 | leave a marriage is when there's unfaithfulness. It does strike me in such a |
| 0:51.2 | positive way when a couple can hang on because again it should not define |
| 0:56.3 | you and the strength of the marriages that I see that go through this are far stronger because they're totally exposed right you |
| 1:06.6 | really know each other after something like that and those marriages again not all |
| 1:10.8 | of them can survive that but those that do man they are |
| 1:15.0 | bonded in a way that's very different and today we want to talk about it |
| 1:18.7 | this is an extremely difficult issue I'm thinking of something that we've created called Hope Restored. |
| 1:26.6 | It's one of our four-day intensives that couples can go to. Many of the couples who come to our Hope Restored Four Day intensive have gone through infidelity. |
| 1:36.8 | And the great counseling staff there can unwind that and help those couples rediscover each other in intimacy and trust. |
| 1:45.0 | It takes time to rebuild that, but I'm so looking forward to the program today |
| 1:49.1 | because again, we are in a sexually saturated culture and sometimes these things happen and I think the Lord smiles when recovery can occur |
| 1:59.5 | Yeah, and we've got some guests who have lived this out in their own marriage. |
| 2:03.7 | Josh and Katie Walters are with us today and they serve on the staff of |
| 2:08.0 | Sea Coast Church. It's a multi-campus ministry in South Carolina. |
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