Marriage and parenthood
1934-11 1934 1930s 22 pages 10 Marriage and Parenthood to take an intelligent interest in the affairs of the larger world. The husband in his turn may do much by a sympathetic understanding of the problems of the home to prevent the burden of domestic detail from becoming overwhelming. The physic...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Friends' Book Centre
November 1934
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| Summary: | 1934-11
1934
1930s
22 pages
10 Marriage and Parenthood to take an intelligent interest in the affairs of the larger world. The husband in his turn may do much by a sympathetic understanding of the problems of the home to prevent the burden of domestic detail from becoming overwhelming. The physical side of marriage has in the past been grievously misunderstood by many married couples, and it is only of late years that the belief that there is something essentially shameful and unclean about the sex instinct has died down. To-day we face the fact that sex is in itself neither moral not immoral, but may be the beautiful expression of a deep love or the casual satisfaction of an appetite, according to the way we make use of it. To the husband and wife who look upon sexual intercourse as an expression in terms of the body of their loving union of heart and mind, it will remain one of the greatest joys and richest experiences which marriage can provide. To them there will be no line of demarcation between the spiritual and the physical, and the revelation of God which is to be found in the whole of life will come to them in a very special way through their joy in each other. It is no easy process for two independent personalities to come together into the peculiarly intimate relationship of marriage, and adjustments need to be made in the most ideal union. Spiritual and intellectual harmony between husband and wife is seldom achieved at once, and many men and women have suffered bitter disappointment on finding that their sex relations did not immediately bring them the exquisite joy and pleasure they had expected. But here, as in other aspects of married life, happiness cannot be achieved without continual unselfishness, consideration, and mutual respect. Love making is a fine art, full of delicate shades and subtleties, and skill can come only with practice and experiment, and a genuine desire on the part of both husband and wife to give joy to the other, and together to draw from their union the richest experience possible. Complete harmony cannot be reached without adequate knowledge, and the married couple may find much help in some of the good modern books on marriage now available. In the early days of marriage, physical love occupies a prominent place in the life of the married pair, and grows in beauty as the perfect union of body and spirit is realised. With added experience a deeper, fuller joy and satisfaction are found, a greater nervous stability, and a sense of peace and well being that are absent in the beginning. To many, probably to most, married people, sexual intercourse remains a beautiful and a frequent expression of their mutual love, while others, with the passage of years, may find other ways, to them no less satisfying, of expressing
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