Cheating by having extramarital affairs in marriage is the reason many marriages are crashing today; it is destroying the fabric of matrimony and families.
This simply means to be sexually unfaithful to one’s spouse. It means to have sex with someone else apart from one’s marriage partner.
- Lack of the fear of God (Rev. 14:7)
- Lack of contentment (1 Tim.6:6)
- Lack of commitment to marriage vows
- Lack of sexual fulfilment (Prov. 5:19)
- Unholy curiosity
- Wrong association (Prov. 31:6)
- Drunkenness (Prov. 31:6)
- Misuse of drugs
- Unnecessary closeness to someone (opposite sex) apart from one’s spouse (Prov. 31:3)
- Lust, pornography, unholy books and magazines, blue films and sexy home videos
- Getting emotionally involved with any woman or man apart from one’s spouse.
- Overconfidence in our ability to withstand temptation. (1 Cor. 10:12)
- Secret sexual fantasies were undisclosed to one’s spouse.
- Gluttony– Love of food has entangled some men to strange women
- Indiscipline- Failure to control emotion and passion
- Too long separation from one’s spouse because of job and ministry.
- Vengeance-Some men do resort to unfaithfulness to pay a cheating partner back.
- Long separation because of marital crisis can encourage infidelity.
- Modern-day contraceptive devices that prevent pregnancy have further encouraged infidelity among women and men from shameful pregnancy and lots more.
- Modern-day business world that allows guys and ladies to travel together on official duties and stay in the same hotels or motels for days also encourages infidelity.
- Night crawling
- Search for intimacy, love, care and acceptance.
- Carelessness-careless relationship with the opposite sex.
- Seduction (Prov. 6:24 26, Prov. 5:1-11)
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