When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
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