Citation

Carter ZA. J. Psychol. Christ. 2019; 38(1).

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(Copyright © 2019, Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Publisher Bookcrafters)

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Abstract

During the last decade and a half, society around the world has beheld the massive rise of social media platforms. The speed, ease, and even reliance on such platforms for which humans communicate with others have quickly advanced. For example, the forerunner platform Facebook has grown from 1 million to 1.4 billion active users since 2004 (Associated Press, 2018). Through social media humans can now create, reasonably maintain, and even develop relational attachments with other users, all with a stroke of a key or swipe of a thumb. From a marriage perspective, a rapidly growing body of research suggests that some of these relationships, particularly those extramarital in nature, often lead to marital conflict, and even termination of the marriage relationship altogether (Abbasi & Alghamdi, 2017; Carter, 2016, 2018; Clayton, Nagurney, & Smith, 2013; Cravens, Leckie, & Whiting, 2013).

Carter (2016) examined married and previously married Christian men and women's perceptions of communication on Facebook with the opposite sex other than a spouse. Specifically, he examined that marital conflict was prompted following the revelation of extramarital behavior such as emotional and/or sexual communication transmitted through Facebook, which often led to a faceto-face affair.

Carter concluded the telltale sign there may likely be emotional and/or sexual communication occurring outside of a marriage is by the steady, emotional detachment [which interestingly, occurs most often unconsciously] of the instigating spouse from the victim spouse...

Language: en