Marital unfaithfulness does not end a marriage, those who want to think so are choosing to believe a lie.
Marital unfaithfulness can be in the heart even if it never happens in the flesh. The heart is just as dirty as the act. Everyone could divorce if unfaithfulness were allowance for divorce. Also, God would throw all of us away for adultery against Him if unfaithfulness were the reason to throw a spouse away.
2 Timothy 2:13 "13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself."
We are not faithful to God regularly, we have wrong thoughts and are disrespectful at times, when we get tired or lazy. We still remain His children just as these actions do not toss God away from us, we are not to toss our spouses away from us for their sins. We might discipline them to bring them back to God, but we don't throw them away, we would have to throw ourselves away for imperfections.
Unfaithfulness not only comes in the form of adultery of the heart, it also comes through a resistance to understand our spouse, lacking support to them. When a couple lives in the same house but maintains a life of separateness, that is a form of unfaithfulness. We are to be supportive of one another, seeking to understand and defend one another.
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