PRO-MARRIAGE

Many couples find that learning Natural Family Planning together and living the NFP lifestyle strengthens their marriage. There are many reasons for this:

1. NFP provides couples with a built-in way of keeping a cycle of courtship and honeymoon in their marriage. To put it most briefly, this prevents either spouse from taking their sexual relationship for granted. It also prevents them from putting their whole approach to intimacy in their marriage on one aspect of their relationship: their sexual love for each other.

2. Couples who practice NFP find that by discussing and prayerfully discerning their aspirations and concerns about the size of their family, they find it more easy to fashion mutually resolve issues in other critical areas of their marriages: finances, "in-law" strategies, how to rear their children, and many other issues.

3. Wives testify to their satisfaction and appreciation of their husbands, who exhibit self-control and a willingness to sacrifice pleasure for the sake of mutually agreed values--truly impressive character traits in our decadent, self-centered culture. Husbands tell us of feeling a sense of privilege in being let into knowledge of their wives' fertility, an understanding few other men can claim to have. Even if it seems more convenient for husbands to let their wives "take care of this women's business," most NFP-using husbands would rather have the true equality this knowledge introduces into their marriages, marriages that pay more than lip service to the "one flesh" that they have become through their marital vows.

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