In recovering from an affair, it is essential to be honest. The honesty also needs to include health related issues. The health issues are important to address. Many couples often take the shortcut and avoid such issues, thinking that it will only stir things up and keep them from living peacefully with each other. Ignoring or minimizing the health issues can be dangerous to your own health.
Affairs are dangerous to your health. The emotional stress of an affair will leave their scars.It is not by chance that the possibility of heart attacks or strokes increases with higher levels of stress. Each time you engage in an affair, risks are being taken concerning ones health. The frightening part is that it is not just their health, it is the health of those around them as well.
Then emotional impact effects the health of those involved and their families. Besides the stress related emotional scars, there are the various diseases and disorders that one is exposed to. Many of the diseases can potentially lay dormant for months or years. Although your spouse looks healthy, they may be carrying diseases that you may not be aware of until you are afflicted. Since affairs often go hand in hand with lying, the paramour may have lied or been unaware of their health status. Paramours have been known to lie about their health status, along with those involved with them. When the affair was an episode of anonymous relations, the danger is even higher. I would want to play Russian roulette or board a plane that may or may not have passed its safety checks. When one would not board a plane that has not passed safety inspections, it seems foolish to engage in relations with someone who has not passed safety inspections either in the form of medical status.
Before rejoining your spouse after an affair has been discovered, it is important to attend to the medical and health concerns. This may be inconvenient, but ill health is even more inconvenient.
Best Regards,
Jeff Murrah
