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Main Entry: adul·tery 
Pronunciation: &-'d&l-t(&-)rE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ter·ies
Etymology: Middle English, alteration of avoutrie, from Middle French, from Latin adulterium, from adulter adulterer, back-formation from adulterare
Date: 15th century
: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband; also : an act of adultery

This is Webster's definition of adultery, but we have much clearer instructions about adultery from Yeshua.  He told his disciples that to look on a woman to lust was adultery.  He also said that a man who left his wife to marry another caused his wife to become an adulterer and would cause the woman he married to become adulterous.  

God hates covenant breakers.  A covenant was always to be an eternal thing.  An agreement between two parties to do or refrain from doing something. The original covenants were cut in blood and had dire consequences when broken. For instance; a tribe full of intelligent but tiny people would covenant with a large, powerful but slow witted tribe.  They would cut their palms and mix their blood by putting palms together.  They would drink wine, have a meal, settle the terms of the covenant and then settle the punishments for breaking the covenant. An exchange of goods would happen and a covenant sign that everyone could recognize was established. Perhaps a staff with the tribes insignia was exchanged. The smart guys would then create things for the strong tribe and solve technical problems.  The strong tribe would defend the smart guys.  If one man would break the covenant by betraying a member of the other tribe, all the parties of both tribes were sworn to kill the covenant breaker.  Covenants made two tribes much stronger as long as the punishments were carried out.  

In earlier times countries would marry off their children in covenants to make two groups of people stronger.  These were political marriages, but were covenants that entire nations stood behind.  

 A marriage covenant is supposed to be "Till death do us part", but today six in ten marriages ends in divorce.  The  second marriage divorce statistics are even higher than that.  If more couples looked at marriage with covenant in mind, nothing would separate them.  Marriage isn't me and you, it's us and we.  How can one flesh be divided and survive?  It can't.  

We can make "adultery" a thing of the past if we make our marriages a covenant and remove divorce and me from our vocabularies.

I have created a page with my personal testimony of adultery in my life. I trust it will help you in your life should it touch it in any way.