English
Español“I am my beloved´s, and my beloved is mine.”
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It is an encounter with a face, a “thou,” who reflects God’s own love and is man’s “best possession, a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.” (The Joy of Love, n.12)
Commentary
How important is it to look at our beloved´s face! A face allows me to come in contact with the “you” that I love. Without that intimate encounter with the other person, there is no love. How different is spousal love from any other casual and anonymous encounter where it hardly matters who the other person is: at the end of the day, it’s all about an object that can be used, and once consumed, discarded.
Whereas for spouses, each one of them is unique. Spouses, because of their love, have begotten themselves. This is their new identity, the most intimate one that stems from being “this man” and “this woman”. It is not just a way of life; it is a way of being. Spouses are “a unique us.” The “us” is the subject and protagonist of “our union.”
He and she, united by belonging one to the other, discover companionship, help, and intimate trust for life at the core of such unity. They find out the authentic remedy to loneliness, the joy of love along with its mutual help, that can resist every misfortune. The other people… have not found anything except sadness, solitude, and inner emptiness.
