An Extramarital Affair​—Why Not?

Popular women’s magazines ask openly: “Will an affair preserve your marriage?”

The Love Affair Goes On

Nevertheless, the love affair with the tulip survived the aftermath of tulipomania, and the tulip bulb industry began to flourish again.

He was greedily carrying on an adulterous affair with a younger woman.

He even wanted me to listen to every detail of his affair.”

Today, oiling a nation’s military machine continues to be a costly affair, even in times of peace.

For many of us, paying taxes is a stressful, yes, taxing affair.

Chronic Illness—A Family Affair

“Most people are part of a family,” states the book Motor Neurone Disease—A Family Affair, “and the shock and anxiety felt by you [the patient] will be shared by those close to you.”

However, even if adultery is never committed, a married person who flirts invites a further danger—becoming involved in what has been termed “an emotional affair.”

Yes, an emotional affair robs one’s mate of time, attention, and affection.

It then adds: “The Watergate affair left a strong imprint on the language of the 1970’s.

a The Watergate affair was so named because a break-in at a building of that name is what brought the matter into the open.

Attraction junkies: They love falling in love, so they go from affair to affair as soon as the excitement of infatuation fizzles.

On the other hand, if he ends the illicit affair, accepts responsibility for his wrongdoing, and shows that he is wholly committed to rebuilding the marriage, his wife might see a basis for hoping that genuine trust can one day be restored.—Matthew 5:29.

How did the affair get started?

By observing this command, one avoids sexually transmitted diseases, marital strain, and the stress of a hidden love affair.

Many gave her advice, but none condemned her husband’s affair.

A four-year study among clergy in the United States found that 1 out of every 10 parish ministers admits “having had an affair with a member of his or her congregation,” reports Ecumenical Press Service (the news service of the World Council of Churches).

The Star referred to the steady rise of credit card transactions in Canada as a “love affair with credit.”

It is strictly a hit-or-miss affair.

And it was such a loosely built affair that you could see the small eggs right through the bottom of the nest.

According to New York’s Daily News, she claims that “75% of the women confessed that the reason they entered into an extramarital affair was not for sex, but communication.”

Twenty years ago, one out of four American women had an affair, she said, but today, it is one in every two.

Having a baby is becoming more of a family affair in many places.

Some hospitals even let older children stand by in an effort to make the whole affair less dramatic and more natural.

“Lots of people think an adulterous affair might spice up a marriage, but an affair was always a sign of real problems.”