The Grace Marriage Podcast

Affair-Proofing Your Marriage: What Every Couple Needs to Know Before It’s Too Late


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In this episode of the Grace Marriage Podcast, hosts Brad and Marilyn join Rick to tackle one of the most difficult conversations in marriage: infidelity. With studies suggesting that 20–40% of marriages experience some form of unfaithfulness—emotional, physical, or even just flirtatious—the team digs into what causes drift, how to recognize early warning signs, and most importantly, how to safeguard your relationship before things spiral.

Through biblical wisdom, honest reflection, and practical advice, they offer hope for couples navigating marital tension, and real strategies for building a marriage that’s both resilient and rooted in grace.


🔑 KEY IDEAS:
- What to do after infidelity in marriage
- How to rebuild trust after an affair
- Signs of true repentance in a relationship
- Emotional vs physical affairs: what’s worse?
- Setting healthy boundaries in marriage
- What causes emotional drift in marriage
 - How to protect your marriage from infidelity
- Signs you’re emotionally connecting with someone else
- Why grace and repentance matter in healing from betrayal

KEY VERSES:
📖 Hebrews 13:4 - “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
📖 Proverbs 5:3–5 - “For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.”
📖 Proverbs 6:32 - “He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.”
📖 Proverbs 7:22–23 - “All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.”

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