Televangelist Pat Robertson has been dishing out his own unique and off-base brand of marriage guidance advice again, this time telling the wife of a cheating husband that she needs to “get over it.”
The infamous evangelist was responding to a letter he had received from a woman called “Ivy,” and said she needs 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 700 Club TV program.
Ivy was admittedly 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.
Instead of providing scriptural based comfort, Robertson, known for his forthright views on a wide range of topics, blew off her concerns as if the cheating should have been expected.
“Here's the secret,” he said. “Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he's a man.”
Instead of focusing on the sin of adultery, Robertson told the woman to remind herself why she married her spouse.
“Does he provide a home for you to live in?” he asked. “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,” who wanders only because of all the pressure in society and the temptations to cheat.
“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.”
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.”
The infamous evangelist was responding to a letter he had received from a woman called “Ivy,” and said she needs 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 700 Club TV program.
Ivy was admittedly 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.
Instead of providing scriptural based comfort, Robertson, known for his forthright views on a wide range of topics, blew off her concerns as if the cheating should have been expected.
“Here's the secret,” he said. “Stop talking the cheating. He cheated on you, well, he's a man.”
Instead of focusing on the sin of adultery, Robertson told the woman to remind herself why she married her spouse.
“Does he provide a home for you to live in?” he asked. “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,” who wanders only because of all the pressure in society and the temptations to cheat.
“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.”
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.”