Televangelist Pat Robertson has been dishing out his own unique brand of marriage guidance advice again, this time telling the wife of a cheating husband to get over her man’s infidelity and start doing more to ensure he doesn’t have reason to wander.
‘Stop talking about the cheating!’ he told the woman during Wednesday's episode of his daily television program, ‘The 700 Club.’
The infamous evangelist was responding to a letter he had received from a woman called Ivy, who had admitted to struggling with forgiveness.
‘We have gone to counseling, but I just can't seem to forgive, nor can I trust. How do you let go of the anger? How do you trust again?’ she wrote.
Robertson, known for his forthright views on a wide range of topics including homosexuality and politics, didn’t beat around the bush with his answer.
‘Here's the secret,’ he said. ‘Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he's a man.’
Instead of focusing on the misdemeanor, Robertson told the woman to remind herself why she married her spouse and then fall in love with him all over again.
‘Does he provide a home for you to live in,’ he said. 'Does he provide food for you to eat? Does he provide clothes for you to wear? Is he nice to the children... Is he handsome?’
On a roll, Robertson offered further anecdotal advice on the ‘tendency of man.’
‘Recognize also, like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit,’ Robertson said. ‘What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander.’
Robertson also reminded the woman that it wasn’t really the man’s fault he had cheated because modern society is filled with so much temptation such as the internet ‘filled with pornography’ and magazine full of ‘salacious’ pictures.
‘Thank God that you have a marriage that is together and that you live in America and good things are happening,’ said Robertson.
This isn’t the televangelist's first foray into marital counseling, earlier this year he told woman that if their husband isn't paying attention, it's probably because you don't look 'pretty' and 'alert'.
'A woman came to a preacher I know - it’s so funny,' said Robertson on his show in January.
'She was awful-looking. Her hair was all torn up, she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad and everything, and she said, "Oh Reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink."
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