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Welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast.

Grace and Mark Driscoll here.

And this is the second in a two-part series on infidelity in marriage.

And we're working off a study done by the Institute for Family Studies, and it's a great organization, and I go there

often for some of the latest data on marriage and parenting and family and faith. They

really do a great job, and it's good academic clinical research. And in this

survey, they surveyed people what constitutes an affair. Well, pretty much everyone agrees.

Physical sex outside of marriage counts. And then the majority, two-thirds to, you know, four-fifths, depending upon if you were

single or married, roughly would consider emotional infidelity as cheating and what Jesus

called adultery of the heart. That being said, let's just tell this conversation briefly,

honey. So what is the role of the emotional affair

as the precursor and the preparation to the physical affair? Meaning, most people don't just,

hi, I want to sleep with you. Okay.

Most people, it starts with... It sets it up for going that direction.

Yeah.

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