If you are married and your spouse is texting other people outside the marriage of the opposite sex, is that a form of cheating or adultery?<\/p>\n\t
No. Adultery is having sex with someone when either is married to someone else. People talk with other people all the time and texting is a modern form of talking. The fact that talking is occurring says nothing about whether a person is faithful or not to his marriage.<\/p>\n
What your question does indicate is that you are being overly possessive in regards to your wife. “Love is patient,\u00a0love is kind and is not jealous<\/strong>; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things<\/em>” (I Corinthians 13:4-7 NASB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: If you are married and your spouse is texting other people outside the marriage of the opposite sex, is that a form of cheating or adultery? Answer: No. Adultery is having sex with someone when either is married to someone else. People talk with other people all the time and texting is a modern…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[66,875],"class_list":["post-25379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-adultery","tag-jealousy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46823,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-cheating-while-dating-known-as-adultery\/","url_meta":{"origin":25379,"position":0},"title":"Is cheating while dating known as adultery?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is cheating while dating (as in having a boyfriend or girlfriend) known as adultery? 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