The Price of Betrayal: 5 Ripple Effects that can destroy your Social Empire
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The Price of Betrayal: 5 Ripple Effects that can destroy your Social Empire
Let’s be concise today.
Adultery is sin.
And the wages of sin is death.
There are unforeseen consequences if you dabble in cheating on your spouse.
And it isn’t as simples as “Get over it” as some influencers would like to believe to just repair the sin, the potential disease, the aftereffects of this social empire destructive action.
Infidelity has a cost.
Play the dangerous game if you want to but it has dire consequences that more people should be upfront about.
Let us look at the Price for an affairs’ destruction.
Price #1: Christ says you can walk
Divorce is not something God wants for us. Not at all.
But the very limited window Christ gives us to be able to do so, sexual immorality is one of those cases. (Matthew 19:9).
Why would you play around with your social empire and do the one thing that destroys the oneness you two share and the marriage you have built?
Divorce
No matter how much the couple manages life well after the fact, divorce takes its toll.
From the financial cost, the remarriage cost and more, divorce over infidelity can be brutal.
In the past, adultery was grounds for divorce, but you had to prove it — and if you did, you were more likely to get what you asked for in the divorce, whether that was money, support, assets like the home, or custody of the children.
While seeking revenge in the courtroom will most likely fall flat, just the chance that you have to have a split social empire, a custody agreement and more just because you couldn’t keep you pants on is a lot to consider.
When deciding whether to reconcile or divorce many factors play a role: the longevity of the affair or numerous ones, the closeness of the other individual, the impact to the self of the other spouse and monetary involvement.
All of this on top of doing the daily work to still maintain the marital lifestyle until the process of a divorce is finalized.
That is a lot over infidelity and a lot to consider.
There are many reasons today thanks to Reagan’s No-Fault divorce trend that divorce is legally allowed for almost any reason. But even Christ accepts infidelity as a just cause.
A big price to pay that is even backed by the Bible.
Price #2: 5 Stages of Grief
Infidelity hurts. And the results are destructive to the marriage and to the individual that is cheated on.
Ortman adds that phases of recovery from infidelity are not unlike the 5 stages of grief. Long-Term Psychological Effects of Infidelity: What the Research Says (psychcentral.com)
What are those stages?
denial
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance
You would be putting your spouse, the person you vowed to love forever, through the same type of grief that people go through after traumatic events or even the death of a family member/friend.
This is possibly the unintended consequences that one doesn’t think about in the excitement or the newness of an affair.
Infidelity has a cost, and it takes a tool to do this on the marriage.
Don’t Give Up
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Price #3: Effects on the Brain
Our brains respond to our physical actions and sex with someone else can really impact our thinking and bodies.
Paraphrasing from Psych Central, Cheating can have a euphoric effect making it very hard to stop.
The addictive nature is just like stopping a type of food or drug habit.
When you want to stop that can cause a type of withdrawal affect that has physical actions to your body.
Because feelings of romance, love, connection that two people experience, the cheating can actually damage the neurons that were transmitting the chemicals to you because of this experience. Long-Term Psychological Effects of Infidelity: What the Research Says (psychcentral.com)
You are actually messing with the make-up of your brain and its physical health too.
Price #4: Children Who Find Out are Hurt.
You can really damage any relationship you have with your child if they are old enough to understand what is going on or when they reach that age.
They can feel different mental issues like abandonment, anxiety or isolation.
They can grow to have negative views of marriage life, fidelity and being together in relationships.
Kids can have trust issues in their own future marriages and when trying to date.
A 2017 study( Trusted Source) looked at how children imitate infidelity modeled to them in childhood in adult relationships. Long-Term Psychological Effects of Infidelity: What the Research Says (psychcentral.com)
Kids can also choose sides and lose lack of respect/trust in the offending parent.
Some social media influencers think that the couple should be automatically ready to reconcile for the sake of the children without talking about the lingering effects that even staying could have on the child’s view of adulthood relationships, marriages and anything the parent tries to tell them.
You children pay a price too for the choice you make.
Price #5: Sin has consequences.
Spiritual laws like sowing and reaping are always in effect. Meaning sin does not go without consequences.
You can lose your job, lose your wealth and even reputation depending on the nature of the affair.
This article talks From Saintly Living tells us 11 consequences of sin. That’s a lot!
Makes You Worthless.
Loss Of God’s Presence.
Leads To Captivity.
Sin Leads To Death.
Sin Leads To Eternal Damnation.
Eternal Separation From God.
Sin Makes You An Enemy Of God.
Sin Brings Curses.
Sin Brings Diseases.
Sin Leads To Eternal Destruction.
Sin Brings Misery.
Forgiveness may be hard to come by and eat at you while you feel the sting, if you feel anything at all.
The law of Truth and Justice hopes you are somewhat amicable in your divorce and not totally screwed with alimony or child support.
Can you afford that if you had to get divorced today?
How does God view what you did? Does your spiritual life matter to you?
How do you get back in the good graces with God after the fall out from this?
The cost is too high and the penalty to great.
Summary
Infidelity isn’t just an issue to wash over and tell someone to get over it.
There are mental, physical and spiritual consequences to destroying your social empire this way.
It can recover and it depends on the individuals in the marriage to work on that.
Children are deeply impacted as well and getting back together isn’t the only solution that needs to be addressed when responding to this point.
When we talk about marriages that last, we must do the work to be aware of where we can stop our marriage from falling apart.
That is making sure we are adamant to be faithful, loyal and committed.
Cheating has a big cost to it. Are you willing to pay it?
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