January 21, 2024 — Episode #3

Responding to a wife heartbroken after discovering her husband’s affair nearly 50 years into marriage, Jerry and Becky talk candidly about how trust is broken and how it can be rebuilt.

They walk through the shock, confusion, and grief that follow discovering an affair, and stress the value of qualified Christian counseling. They broaden the conversation beyond infidelity to other ways trust erodes in a marriage — financial secrecy, broken priorities, and inconsistency in spiritual leadership — and close with the idea that forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling, pointing to Proverbs 31:11 and 1 Peter 4:8.

Topics discussed:

• Discovering a spouse’s affair and processing the emotional fallout
• The importance of qualified Christian counseling
• Financial and social-media related breaches of trust
• Rebuilding trust as a long, mutual process
• Forgiveness as a choice rather than an emotion
• Proverbs 31:11 and 1 Peter 4:8 on trust and love

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