Prevention is the best cure. There is age old wisdom in these words. Preventing cheating from ever becoming a problem for your marriage can save you both a great deal of heartache and hurt along the way. It can also help you have the happy marriage all your friends and acquaintances envy from the very beginning. But, how do you protect your marriage from cheating?
1) Always make your spouse a priority in your life. Jobs come and go as do friends and hobbies. Your husband or wife though should be the single most important person in your life. It's easy to get caught up in what's going on in the world around you and take for granted that your spouse understands and will always be there. But, most people can only wait for so long to be recognized and acknowledged before they are easily tempted by someone else who comes along and notices them on the sidelines and steals their attention from you. If your spouse is always a priority in your life this will be much harder for someone to do.
2) Find new ways to fall in love with your mate each and every day and make your spouse fall in love with you all over again daily. If you do this you'll never have to worry about someone else coming in and stealing your thunder or making your spouse fall out of love with you. The other added benefit is that as long as you are working to keep the love alive in your marriage, you are focusing on your marriage and making it a priority in your life.
3) Make a point every single day to do something nice for and say something nice to your spouse. Positivity is contagious. If you shower your spouse with nice things and compliments you are sure to get those nice things and compliments returned. You don't have to make grand gestures to get grand results. Don't spend yourself into bankruptcy. Instead, make small gestures daily and save the big gestures for special moments in your marriage.
4) Be intimate often. Intimacy is about so much more than sex though a steady supply of good meaningful sex can't hurt in this particular situation. Casual intimacy and long conversations are just as important in building an intimate rapport in your marriage. Keep the intimacy alive and burning strong for as long as you are married and you'll have a happy, healthy marriage that is in little danger of being torn apart by cheating.