Thou shalt not commit adultery.
-Exodus 20:14, KJV
Cheaters often use the same plays.
This is why I believe a dark spiritual element is evident in all cases of infidelity. The commonalities in behavior are too eerily alike to be just be coincidences. Some wicked force is coordinating this evil!
One thing I remember my (now) ex-wife doing years before the confirmed adulterous affair was encouraging me to welcome romantic/sexual attention from the opposite sex.
It struck me as a very odd encouragement at the time.
I did not make the connection back then–or quickly dismissed it–that such was what she was already doing. She was playing with fire!
To an admittedly significantly lesser degree, this was akin to a partner suggesting an open marriage. The request or encouragement suggested the relationship already was subject to being open.
She was already likely welcoming guys hitting on her romantically. I am convinced that such was her “drug” of choice.
Being hit on will happen. We do not control other people and their behaviors.
However, we do control how we respond to such behavior. We do control whether we wallow in and encourage this ego-boost or whether we treat it as the potential threat it is.
I recommend the later and not the former.
That’s what it means to “forsake all others” after all!
*A version of this post ran previously.
