Stuck in sexual sin
Good morning everyone! New anonymous account for a reason here. I’m a 32 years old single male from Missouri and over the past 6 years, really since the pandemic, I have been living in sexual sin with one of my friends and his wife. We all attend the same church but accountability and discipline in our ward is not really a thing I’d be first to admit that we’ve all lived as Christians only in name and on social media but behind it all we’ve lived together in this sin. I was initially hesitant when the topic and eventually the proposition was brought up, but I was single, virgin and fell into the temptation and for all these years I didn’t really care I was sinning. I lived in fact. Loved every opportunity to get intimate with them.
Over the last few months I have been gravely convicted and my heart has been starting to resent myself and this sin. What would be the best approach to tell them that I’d like to end the sexual relation but not the friendship? Is there a “best” approach other than the direct approach? I don’t want or I think I don’t want to completely cut them off but I also realize it may have to come to that.
Thank you in advance for any advice and responses.