What is the religious ruling on a pure and honorable love relationship between a man and a married woman, knowing that she fulfills her duties towards her husband and children perfectly? And is the woman's preoccupation with thoughts of the man during Ramadan considered among the things that break the fast? And what is the ruling on her calling him by phone while she is fasting?
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The relationship between a man and an unrelated woman, especially if she is married, cannot be described as honorable and pure, because it involves looking, seclusion, and unnecessary conversation, and all these matters are forbidden. There is no such thing as an "honorable love relationship" between a man and an unrelated woman; this is the correct answer. The sin of these relationships increases in Ramadan, and merely having a love relationship between a boy and a girl does not invalidate the fast unless it results in the emission of semen or intercourse.
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