Guard Your Marriage #10

 

Adultery does not just happen. It is the culminating act of many tiny steps of unfaithfulness. We are examining these in order to help safeguard marriages. We offer word-for-word quotes from real people who wrecked marriages (theirs and others). This information comes to us at great expense.

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"He would write these little encouraging notes and leave them in my desk, pocketbook, or taped to my computer.  They didn't say anything which could be traced.  If anyone found them they wouldn't suspect anything.  But we both knew what was going on.  We just didn't want to stop yet."

"I would sometimes call him and leave a short message on his answering machine.  He would leave little notes in my Bible."

"He would buy me a little gift - not that expensive, but it always showed me he had taken extra thought to get exactly what I liked.  Of course everyone else thought he was just being a good boss."

"She started leaving unsigned notes to me in my desk sharing her feelings for me.  It scared me at first, because I thought someone would find one.  But after a while I found myself looking forward to the next one, even though I knew the risk."

Source: Money, Sex and Spiritual Power by Keith Drury.