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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

The #1 Mistake That DESTROYS Marriages

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Discover the secrets to a thriving, lasting, and love-filled relationship, and learn the deadly mistakes that silently destroy even the strongest marriages.

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0:00.0

Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me the honor of helping you learn God's Word.

0:05.4

Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

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We're now seeing over a billion impressions a year staggering as God's Word is going faster and further than ever.

0:19.6

I'm really excited to help you learn the scriptures, and if you would do me a favor,

0:24.2

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0:28.1

give a gift of any amount, and help me get Bible teaching to someone who needs it

0:33.7

and hasn't yet heard it.

0:35.5

All right, well, howdy, Pastor Mark and Grace Driscoll here with

0:38.5

the Real Marriage Podcast. And this is going to be a very long conversation that we're going to have

0:44.6

and it'll be very honest about how to affair proof your marriage. And so... Or like I'd like to call it adultery.

0:55.0

Adultery, yes. Well, that's where the Lord Jesus says, you know, you've heard it said,

1:00.0

you know, thou shall not commit adultery, he said, don't look lustfully. So there's adultery of the hands,

1:05.0

and there's adultery of the heart. And in the day of pornography addiction, there's a lot of adultery of the heart.

1:14.3

But ultimately, long before there's an adultery of the hands, there's an adultery of the heart.

1:19.6

And the adultery of the heart, as you stated, oftentimes it's just rooted in bitterness.

1:25.4

And bitterness in the Bible, unforgiveness,

1:29.1

it can be against God or a person. There's a woman in the Bible named Naomi in the book of

1:34.6

Ruth, and her name means sweet. And her son die, her husband dies. She's abandoned in foreign country. She's completely impoverished.

1:48.2

Her life is cratered. Yeah, it's very hard. It's very hard. She says, I'm changing my name to Mara,

1:54.7

which means bitter because the Lord has made my life bitter. So she literally goes into the Department of Motor Vehicles and says,

2:04.0

I'd like to change my driver's license.

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