When asked to describe the difference betweeninfidelityandadultery, award-winning marriage and family therapistDr.

And like these colloquialisms, there are technical and intentional distinctions between the terms infidelity and adultery.

In that way, all adultery includes infidelity, but not all infidelity is adulterous.

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Don’t let a marriage license be the only reason to claim the term adultery over infidelity.

Dr. Alsaleem contrasts that with infidelity “unfaithfulness or disloyalty to a person.”

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