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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

The Immediate Damage of an Affair

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Sadly, many couples experience the sting of betrayal. When the unfaithfulness comes to light, the damage is shocking. John talks with Greg and Erin about why an affair is so devastating to a marriage, and they'll point you to resources for starting a recovery process.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:36.8

Every couple I know makes mistakes. Some decisions have small consequences. They

0:42.1

become irritants. Others have really big consequences. And one of the most

0:46.7

devastating choices someone can make in a marriage is to choose to be unfaithful.

0:52.2

And sadly I think pretty much every one of us knows at least one or two or more

0:57.0

people who have gone through that painful kind of trauma. Today we're going to

1:01.6

be offering help to those who have been betrayed. I'm John Fuller joined in

1:06.4

the studio by my focus colleagues Aaron and Greg Smalley and Aaron your

1:10.8

counselor. You've met with lots and lots of couples. What's it like for

1:15.2

someone when he or she finds out that I'm being betrayed? There's an affair

1:20.9

going on. Yeah, that's devastating. And I love the word that you use. John that

1:25.9

it's trauma because it is. There's a term called betrayal trauma because

1:31.1

it's very traumatic. It rocks your world. And usually people are feeling

1:35.5

rejected, worthless, unloved, disrespected, failed, hopeless, helpless, you

1:40.7

know, and just the whole gamut of emotion. And then you, you know, you're

1:45.0

really, you're grieving the reality of this that you never dreamt we would be

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