Extramarital affairs occurs when a married person engages in sexual activity with someone other than his or her spouse. The term may be applied to the situation of a single person having affairs with a married person. From a religious perspective, it could refer to affairs between people who are not in a conjugal relationship. What starts out as an emotional bond with someone can eventually lead to an extramarital affair. Sometimes when you experience a tough situation in life, your core values are tested. Sometimes this could be the cause for irreconcilable differences, which triggers an extramarital affair.

With a whole lot of viral extramarital affairs nowadays, it is of good advantage to wives who suffered psychological abused from husband who’s involved in another woman after so many years of living together in the same house especially if it involves children. The emotional distress and a whole lot of emotional suffering that some who cannot afford to fight the battle ends of either ending their lives or their children.

“Marital infidelity, which is a form of psychological violence, is theproximate cause of [the wife’s] emotional anguish and mental suffering, to the point that even her health condition was adversely affected,” the SC said.

The decision was penned by Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta with concurrences from Associate Justices Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa, Amy Lazaro-Javier, Mario Lopez, and the now-retired Jose Reyes, Jr.–LDF, Source: GMA News. Extramarital affair affirmed a minimum of six months to a maximum of eight-year prison term against the husband for Section 5(i) of the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) Act.