Dale Patridge has said that it’s emotional adultery for a man to have a close female colleague he calls his “work-wife”.

The American pastor made this known on Twitter, starting an argument.

He wrote: “Husbands, if you have a woman at the office who you call your ‘work-wife,’ you’re committing emotional adultery against your real wife. Cut the role-play garbage. It’s insulting to your bride and dangerous to your marriage.”