8 Spiritual Effects When You Have Sex With a Married Man

While spiritual practices worldwide vary in specific teachings and practices, one common trait across belief systems includes consequences for interfering with marriage. Yes, having sexual affair with a married man is considered taboo in most spiritual belief systems.

Some spiritual belief systems, such as paganism and New Age beliefs, have far more open and flexible beliefs about the nature of relationships and marriage. Yet even in these belief systems, it is thought that sleeping with a married man brings spiritual consequences for both partners.

Spiritual Effects You’ll Face when You Sleep With a Married Man:

1. Facing the Punishment of Sin:

Not every belief system has a belief in good and evil, or sinning and punishment for bad behavior. But among those spiritual systems that do believe in sin, it is considered against God to sleep with someone outside of your marriage. The sin of adultery and its subsequent punishment extends both to the married partner who sleeps with someone outside of their marriage, and the partner who sleeps with the married individual.

The belief in sleeping with a married man as a sin reflects some practical aspects of spiritual paths that use belief in sin to maintain social order. Sleeping with a married man can cause social friction and trauma to the family; thus labeling this behavior a sin punishable by God discourages people from engaging in it.

In religions like Christianity, the stigma against sleeping with a married man is often greater in practice than a man sleeping with a married woman, though in theory, both are considered a sin. Depending on the degree of traditional dogma, this behavior is thought to bring shame, impurity, or even an existential consequence related to eternal damnation. Though in more progressive factions of Christianity and other spiritual systems that believe in sin, outlets for making amends and repairing damage can lead to reconciliation and avoidance of eternal suffering and damnation or excommunication from the church.

2. Negative Energies and A Drained Aura:

Even if you don’t belong to a dogmatic religion, the energetic impact of sleeping with a married man can bring consequences. Your aura and energy correspond to your mood and physical health. Sleeping with a married man invites complicated emotional entanglements and can impact your energy.

The affair can be draining and diminish your spiritual connection. If you are expecting a commitment or have dreams the man will leave his wife for you, the affair can drain your soul. You may give more energy to the married man than he is willing to return, which will manifest in your energetic body. Your health and well-being can suffer because of this imbalance.

The romantic entanglement will manifest in your aura, and a psychic healer will sense that something is draining you and blocking you from attracting a fulfilling relationship. The level of secrecy and deception required to sleep with a married man will also impact your energy and soul connection.

You may spend years waiting for a man to leave his wife, building up expectations and illusions that impair your relationship with your spiritual Source. Instead of finding love and fulfillment, an affair with someone who is not available takes from you and can bring energetic imbalances, draining your vitality and leading to obstruction from self-acceptance and empowerment.

The chaos and traumatic energy created by the affair impacts the married man’s relationship. Energetically, you may pick up on the chaotic and unstable energies of the marital difficulties. You may also become susceptible to negative thought-forms and energetic attachments that bring continued chaos and turbulence to your life.

3. Missing Out on True Love and Destiny:

Investing in an affair with a married man can also disrupt your destiny. You may miss connecting with your soulmate because you are convinced the married man is meant to be with you as soon as he leaves his wife. While you wait for him, your spiritual path is altered as you stagnate or regress into self-sabotaging patterns rather than pursuing reciprocal love with someone who is available.

Spending time pursuing a married man or sleeping with a married man rather than healing yourself and attracting love, can also hurt your psychic and social wellness. You can become dragged down by this affair and susceptible to illusions. Thus you may unintentionally drain your friends’ and love interests’ energies or even your soulmates’ energies to compensate for the loss of balance the affair brings.

4. Loss of Honor:

In most spiritual belief systems, sleeping with a married man in an otherwise monogamous relationship (excluding spiritual systems which accept polyamory, for example), results in some degree of losing honor. It is believed that people who sleep with a married partner lose some spiritual standing, though this is not always a matter of eternal punishment and damnation of the soul.

In more lenient spiritual beliefs, this act is considered taboo and tarnishes the person’s sense of purity and spiritual connection to the Divine. The breach of trust within a relationship or community associated with sleeping with a married man is expanded. The person is seen as losing trust and standing in their community and relationship with the Divine.

Some spiritual systems, particularly in the New Age and pagan communities, believe the actions toward others mirror your respect and relationship with the Divine. Thus, participating in a breach of trust and boundaries by sleeping with a married man is aligned in a macrocosm with “cheating” on your commitments to the Divine.

5. The Burden of Bad Karma:

The term Karma is often used loosely to refer to spiritual consequences, yet in some spiritual belief systems, this term has a very specific purpose. It refers to the correction of spiritual imbalances caused by not living in alignment with Divine principles.

Sleeping with a married man is often considered even by the most flexible and nondogmatic spiritual communities to invite Karmic consequences. Among those who don’t believe in damnation and punishments by an angry Divine being, there remains an understanding that breaching a marital vow or participating in a relationship that creates deception and betrayal has consequences. The physical and emotional consequences are seen as connected to a spiritual impact.

The Karmic consequences of an affair with a married man could be as simple and fast-acting as having your heart broken when he betrays you for someone else. The Karmic repercussions could also be more long-term and impact you for lifetimes. In this case, some believe that Karmic consequences of an affair with a married man manifest much later. You may fall in love with the man of your dreams, only to experience what it is like to be cheated on when he has an affair with someone else. This type of Karmic consequence may occur later in this life or in reincarnation.

6. Loss of Spiritual Direction:

In many spiritual belief systems, the mundane family is connected to the idea of a Divine family. Thus, a transgression against someone’s family such as sleeping with a married man is considered a slight against the Divine. In more lenient spiritual systems, this results in a loss of direction.

Yet the person who sleeps with a married man can atone and restore balance and healing, avoiding existential crisis. In these spiritual belief systems, the person who sleeps with a married man is seen as confused and making a mistake, yet it is considered a mistake which can be corrected by restorative actions.

The person may, for example, work on themselves and discover why they were tempted to sleep with a married man in the first place. In these humanistic spiritual belief systems, the goal is not to face Divine punishment, but to learn what led you off course and into temptation to violate your morals. By learning and correcting your actions, the transgression serves the purpose of bringing wisdom.

Yet in more dogmatic, traditional, and strict spiritual systems, it is considered an egregious act that violates the trust of a community. As such, the spiritual consequences of going off-course and sleeping with a married man are more dire.

7. Loss of Divine Connection:

For both traditional and more flexible spiritual systems, the act of sleeping with a married man results in a loss of connection to Creator and the Divine. In more permissive and flexible spiritual paradigms, there is no good and evil. Yet some behaviors bring you closer to the Divine, while other acts pose an obstruction.

The loss of connection to the Divine is a consequence that changes how you feel about yourself. The punishment, then, is not about damnation or existential destruction, but rather about a loss of harmony and equilibrium that you have when fostering your connection to the Divine.

In these practices and beliefs, to lose connection to the Divine is the consequence, yet it can be corrected by restoring your actions in harmony with your ethics and morals. The consequence, then, is the one you bring on yourself by keeping a secret and violating a taboo. It is not a punishment inflicted by an angry Divine being.

8. Angering the Divine:

However, in more traditional and dogmatic sects of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, adultery is considered a grave moral breach and thus results in angering the Divine. In traditional beliefs associated with these religions, sleeping with a married man is a serious offense for which the Divine feels slighted and brings consequences both in this life and in the hereafter.

In these and other spiritual systems, such as traditional aspects of the Hindu faith, sleeping with a married person is considered a spiritual equivalent of a crime. In various times and places, society has also condemned this behavior as such, viewing it as a transgression against the Divine.

The exact nature of God or the Divine’s retribution for being angered by sleeping with a married man varies depending on the exact culture and spiritual community. In some beliefs, the angry Creator can be appeased with amends and changed behavior. But in other beliefs, punishment is inevitable and extends to the afterlife or future lifetimes.

Conclusion

Regardless of whether a spiritual system upholds strict and dogmatic rules about sin and punishment, or is more fluid and adaptable, sleeping with a married man is considered a consequential choice. There are likely no spiritual systems which view this act as having no repercussions, though the consequences range from eternal suffering and condemnation, to the experience of being in someone else’s shoes and learning firsthand what it feels like to be cheated on. Whether your spiritual beliefs are strict and finite, or involve lessons without judgment, there is no getting around the consequences of actions on a mundane and spiritual level.