marital fidelity
Staying true, married
Marital fidelity is faithfulness to one's spouse—specifically, not having sexual or romantic relationships outside the marriage.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of commitment, trust, and the boundaries couples establish: They had different expectations about marital fidelity.
Infidelity is the violation of this expectation.
- faithfulnessDevoted loyalty maintained
- trustConfidence in another
- marriageFormal union between partners
- wedding vowsSpoken marriage commitments
- till deathUntil life ends
commitment · forsaking · forsaking all others · exclusivity · covenant · chastity · marriage bed · wedding · honor · morality · monogamy · open marriage · devotion · true love · self-control · integrity · vows · troth
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- Biblical Marriagemarriage covenant, bride, husband and wife, bridegroom, groom
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- chastitychastity, celibacy, virginity, abstinence, purity
- commandmentsTen Commandments, no other gods, honor thy parents, honor parents, no stealing
- infidelityadultery, affair, adulteress, cheating, cheater
marital fidelityadultery
Married person's sexual betrayal
infidelity · cheating · extramarital affair · unfaithfulness · marital infidelity
marital fidelitybetrayal
Breaking of trust
disloyalty · faithlessness · treachery · perfidy · broken vows
marital fidelitybetrayal
Breaking of trust
abandonment · neglect · desertion · breaking vows · disloyalty