What is Creator’s perspective on adultery and promiscuity?

We see marital vows as a sacred pact and recognize that such sacred pacts are not to be treated lightly, they are meant to be absolute, so if such vows are broken, there will be consequences. It is inevitable there will be loss of trust, wounded sensibilities, and a likely loss of affection and respect towards the offender. This is something people will simply feel but it is based on the divine path that depends on people honoring their word, and the need for people to come together in long-term love relationships in order to conduct the business of life, which includes forming family units that are stable and based on permanent love bonds holding the relationships together through good times and bad, and allowing stability for the successful raising of healthy offspring that can take a meaningful and effective place in society and continue the growth and evolution of the human enterprise. Life in the physical realm is not easy and there needs to be stability of relationships and a spiritual focus to be the most successful one can. This is not aided by taking vows and then breaking them—that will undermine things in serious ways. So it is a transgression that is not punished by the divine but will be reckoned with through the Law of Karma to require a rebalancing on the part of the transgressor to, in some way, make up for the betrayal of trust their actions represent. So some karmic harm will come to such individuals because of their neglect of and hurting of someone who they pledged their loyalty to but betray through an act of adultery. There are situations where people are married in name only because love has waned and people are only going through the motions. There may be a strong desire to maintain the facade of being in a happy marriage for the sake of the children, and that can be a blessing in some situations, but all too often the children see through the sham and this adds much confusion and fear because they are living a lie, and a witness to the false circumstances played out by the parents right in front of them. It would be better, in most cases, for people to honor their feelings and have a separation, and help the children understand and deal with the reality of things when love fades or there is a breach of trust that makes a further relationship unworkable. These are difficult situations, to be sure, but need to be dealt with openly and honestly to minimize the damage to the young looking at the parents as role models, inevitably. Much damage will take place if the parents are neglectful of their marital duty and responsibility for ethical conduct. But in marriages that essentially are empty, finding love elsewhere is not a serious karmic breach, in the sense people have an obligation to their own soul to give and receive love. This is the way you express being a true divine human. When denied this outlet, there is a strong yearning and desire to seek it somewhere else. To do so, if it is kept secret and does not hurt the other party, is a minor transgression because it does not hurt the marriage partner and rewards the soul of the person who does find love in a clandestine relationship. This is clearly not ideal because it still will be circumscribed, will be difficult to manage, and carries with it great risk in causing harm through the betrayal of trust it truly represents. So this would require some extenuating circumstances that can be defended from an ethical perspective because the desire is to maintain a relationship, perhaps to be the custodian of someone who has serious impairments but cannot truly represent a marital partner, in all respects, because of dysfunction. In that situation, one may be honoring their marital vow to stay on duty but naturally will yearn for love and intimacy, and may give in to temptation and develop surreptitious relationships. If that is done without causing harm to the partner, that is a minor transgression from the divine realm’s perspective, so things must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis because the honoring of love is what is truly important here. This is not the same as sanctioning polyamory where people have multiple partners within a marriage, thinking this simply adds variety and is healthy if people are secure about their own value and do not feel threatened if their partner engages in amorous relationships with many other partners on occasion as opposed to having a long-term relationship. But the latter occurs, in many cases as well, where there may be men with multiple wives and sometimes couples intermarry and attempt to live together so there are dual wives and dual husbands, and so forth. What you will see, if you look close enough, is there will inevitably be a lack of full bonding, a full acceptance, and a full development of love to any of the partners. So, in essence, what is going on is an incomplete love relationship being compensated for by having multiple partners, each of which is a relatively superficial relationship. So it is, in effect, a compensation for a less than desirable lack of deep bonding and deep love—so it is more a symptom of a problem than a solution or a desirable lifestyle.