Pat Robertson Tells Wife Of Cheating Husband To Be Grateful For Marriage

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Pat Robertson Tells Wife Of Cheating Husband To Be Grateful For Marriage, Make Home Enticing.

Im not a Pat robertson fan but the article skewed the facts. a woman wrote in and asked how to forgive her cheating husband. she didnt ask is it a sin to leave him for cheating or leave him because he was cheationg.

sher asked how can she forgive him. so she decided to stay.

now, lets do this .......if your friend says their other half ( married) cheated would you tell them to leave and what advice would you give if they decided to stay in the marriage to make it work

 

I would ask if her sexual fidelity was worth destroying his whole life or radically restructuring it via divorce. If that's most important, leave. But if you have a child, property, etc, I would recommend toughing it out, especially if you have a child. Or coming to some sort of accord with her, i.e. open relationship, no sex at all, or some other arrangement.

 

I am not a fan of Pat Robertson, either. But, the church does encourage married couples to spend more time together. Of, course, there are those spouses who believe in sex for procreation as opposed to recreation. Things become really complicated when children are in the picture. So, the couple would have to work together for their benefit. The door swings both ways. Marriage is about maturity as well as love and fidelity. And it takes two to make a marriage work.

 

my respect for pat robertson has declined as i grew older

after this...i have none

 

Pat Robertson has said crazy things for years.

 

I never had any to begin with.

 

That's kind of sexist... should a man just be happy that he's married even if he gets cheated on? Would any male viewers be happy if they got cheated on?

I know I wouldn't, divorce is the only answer for me.

 

I'm not liking the way Pat Robertson addressed the question: a woman can look good, keep a nice home, raise the kids right, satisfy her husband sexually - and he could still cheat. Why? Because he can.

My opinion would be to try to make the marriage work first. It also depends on the depth of the cheating and the circumstances. Was it a one-time offense? What caused the partner to stray? Is there remorse/repentance and a desire to remain married on the part of the cheater? I know of marriages that successfully and happily survived cheating.

Biblically speaking, infidelity is grounds for divorce, but doesn't mean that divorce is the only outcome.

 

Does the new testament say that?

 

It's not a direct quote, but it's inferred in Matt 19:9 and Matt 5:32.

 

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Matthew 19

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19 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”

4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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so if a dude or dudette bangs someone outside of marriage (one nite stand or not) they can be kicked to the curb

 

here is A better question if that person decides to stay then what advice would you tell them on how to forgive and make the marriage work?

 

They CAN but go back to verses 4-6. That's not what God intended.

I would advocate professional counseling. I think one partner can stand in the gap for their marriage, but in the end, the other partner has to want to remain committed too.

 

i understand but u have the right to get a divorce because GOD didnt intend for a person to dick or pussy fling around. also in the begininng there wasnt any formal wedding perse ...if you laid together you are automatically married