Extramarital Affairs
- According to Wikipedia: "Extramarital affairs are relationships outside of marriage where an illicit romantic or sexual relationship or a romantic friendship or passionate attachment occurs."
- Basically cheating on one's spouse
- Extramarital affairs have raised moral concern in both personal and public life.
- Extramarital affairs take many forms, making it difficult to generalize about their moral status.
In Defense of Affairs
Richard Taylor argues:
- Because love is the highest good, affairs with love are good
- Affairs are good to complement marriage
- enforce: excitement, affection, recognition, & strengthened self-esteem
- Spouse's Jealousy is natural, but bad and destructive
- Marriages and other relationships should not be threatened by affairs.
- "Stop feeling guilty"
- "Be aware of the needs of others" (the person who you are having the affair with) honesty required for intimacy
- "Be honest" (the person who you are having the affair with) NEVER LIE ABOUT BEING MARRIED
- "Do not exhibit and boast"
- "Do not spy or pry"
- "Do not confront or entrap"
- "Stay out of it"
- "Stop bing jealous"
- Is hiding an affair justified, as telling a spouse about it will cause them harm?
- Is one still faithful to their spouse when they cheat?