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as the existatial theologian kierkegaard implicitly states, the knight of faith, a authentic christian, is one with enough passion to abandon what Art calls "what I know" for the trancendental. thus faith and the notion of passion is closely tied in an existantial sense; essentially, to have faith, you have to be passionate. in fact kierkegaard is the one who developed the notion of "the leap of faith". to have faith is a very hard thing according to Kierkegaard. to him, to have faith is to know you will not at all be effected/rewarded for your belief in this life or even ever YET you believe. it is believing blindly regardless of the outcome. it is illogical in every aspect. YET it is to have the passion to overcome logic when one can call oneself faithful... in your context or the context of relationship, if you ever read Othello (shakespeare) you can see, the lack of faith and the belief in logic caused the downfall in the relationship.
when asked "are you cheating on me?"
you never answer "i think i'm not"
you know it or don't. logic should not and does not(at least in shakespeare's context) work out in a relationship. you need to belief and at times even blindly in your partner for it to work out. as Halx signified, it's illogical. it's not suppose to be logical.
this is all based on a very late enlightenment/early romantic type of philosophy. modern relationships are often more pragmatic as we have more choices and rooms for divource/breakups. it's up to you, if you need faith, then forget about logic or thinking about it. you need to stick with passion...
//two cents
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