Matt Walsh

Let's go with that for the sake of argument.

Okay.

Well, then this is why boundaries are important for married people.

And the boundaries should be so strict, so absolute.

that you could never even reasonably be suspected of having an affair.

I mean, you shouldn't get close enough to the line that you're ever in a situation that could be misconstrued in the first place.

Like, this is how radical I am on this.

If you as a married person are ever in a situation with another person who is not your spouse, where a reasonable observer would think that you're romantically involved,

then you've already crossed the line.

Just the very fact of someone saying, oh, are you guys like together?

That already means you're too close.

Even without the hand-holding and the hugging, which hopefully is obvious to everyone is totally inappropriate for married people.

Even without that, if somebody from afar could look at the dynamic between you and this other person and think, oh, they must be dating, they must be married.

Again, you've crossed the line.

You've already gone too far.

And that should be obvious.

Like having any kind of intimate interaction with a member of the opposite sex when you're married is cheating.

I'll put it that way.

Any form of intimacy at all, period, with a member of the opposite sex when you're married is already cheating.

Intimate conversation, intimate hug, intimate anything.