Petros2015
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- Jun 23, 2016
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Oh... whoops I thought that was the OP.
Oh well, glad someone is making progress.
I feel like I hear this 'well I'm burning with passion so I should take a wife like Paul said' and that will solve everything argument get bandied about every so often. And I think that does satisfy mutually the natural desires for family, company, procreation and some.. ahem... recreation when the partnership is good. But there's maybe a tendency to mistake unnatural for natural when it comes to lust. Lust treats the partner as an object - it is not an expression of love, it ultimately becomes an expression of selfishness. Sometimes the marriage can be viewed as 'license to lust', when in fact that is the last place that lust should be placed as Captain. If it is, it will destroy intimacy, rather than build it.
Oh well, glad someone is making progress.
I feel like I hear this 'well I'm burning with passion so I should take a wife like Paul said' and that will solve everything argument get bandied about every so often. And I think that does satisfy mutually the natural desires for family, company, procreation and some.. ahem... recreation when the partnership is good. But there's maybe a tendency to mistake unnatural for natural when it comes to lust. Lust treats the partner as an object - it is not an expression of love, it ultimately becomes an expression of selfishness. Sometimes the marriage can be viewed as 'license to lust', when in fact that is the last place that lust should be placed as Captain. If it is, it will destroy intimacy, rather than build it.
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