Televangelist Pat Robertson advised the wife of a cheating husband who called into his daily television program "The 700 Club" that in order to forgive him, she should stop focusing on what he had done wrong and turn to "the good stuff", adding that "like it or not, men have a tendency to wander a little bit, and what you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander". The comment is the latest in a long line of controversial marriage advice from Robertson. Watch the video of his comments below.
"I've been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me," a viewer wrote to Robertson on Wednesday's episode. "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?"
"Well, here's the secret," Robertson said, "stop talking about the cheating. He cheated on you. Well, he's a man. So what you do is begin to focus on why you married him in the first place."
He went on to give examples of what she might still love and admire about her husband and recommended she focus on those before telling her that males' "tendency to wander" was encouraged by the abundance of sexualized and pornographic media available today.
In a January episode of his show, Robertson had said that "awful-looking" women can be to blame for marital problems.
"A woman came to a preacher that I know, and she was awful looking," he said then. "I mean, her hair was all torn up and 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.' And the preacher looked at her and said, 'Madam, if I was married to you I'd start to drink too.' We need to cultivate romance, darling! ... You always have to keep that spark of love alive. It just isn't something to just lie there, 'Well, I'm married to him so he's got to take me slatternly looking.' You've got to fix yourself up, look pretty."
In 2010, the host also told a woman who suffered from her husband's flirtatiousness with other women not to "hassle him about it".
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