“We both know our marriage was in trouble for years. The affair wasn’t really the issue. It was just an exit affair.”

-Cheater

I hate how people minimize the damage of adultery by labeling some affairs: “exit affairs.”

Does it make it less of a sin in God’s eyes if it was an “exit affair?” Did this revised Ten Commandments just not make it into any of my Bibles? You know, the one where “exit affairs” are the exception to “Thou shalt not commit adultery?”

It is ridiculous.

So what if the marriage was struggling?! Do we give murderers permission to shoot cancer patients just because they are sick? Of course, not.

Adultery is adultery.

Doesn’t matter the marriage circumstances prior to the affair. The Bible labels adultery–“exit affair” or not–as evil sin (see Deuteronomy 22:22 and Exodus 20:14).   _____

*A version of this post ran previously.