Adulterous Affair Case Study

Case 3 Adulterous Affair is about a man name Tom who’s having a secret affair with his secretary, Francine for a year and decided to end their affair. After this affair Tom started to have guilty conscience. He couldn’t decide rather to confess his crime or say nothing about it. He asked his friend Doug for advice on his situation. Doug told Tom to pretend nothing has happened so his wife would not get hurt. Unsure of Doug advice, he confess to the priest. The priest advice Tom to tell his wife his mistake, beg for forgiveness and promise never to do it again (Thiroux, p. 286). One day his wife notice he was concern something is on his mind. Asking him what’s wrong.
What Tom did was an immoral thing. He knew it was immoral and he wanted to do something that would be moral to his situation. Tom’s affair falls into amoral because he had no moral sense to what he was doing with Francine. He didn’t see that his affair was immoral problem. This was also a personal egoism. The …show more content…
Adultery only cause lying, cheating, and infidelity on one part of one marriage partner or another (Thiroux, p. 320). Adultery is like a destructive button to a marriage relationship. With adultery it can lead marriage relationships to either separation or divorce and also cause children to suffer in the process.
There’s an argument about against cheating where cheating is considering unfair and unjust to one married partner. Marriage is like a fair play to both partner. In a marriage you are to play by the rules that both partners set up with one and another but if the tends to cheat, lose interests in one or another you’re basically disobeying the rules set out to one another and tends to keep deceiving your partner on lies you tend to tell contently (Thiroux, p.