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“This process takes time. Love needs time and space; everything else is secondary.” (The Joy of Love, n.224)
Commentary
Time and space are the stages of human life. Married love needs time and space to exist, to be lived.
Time to talk, time to embrace, time to share projects, listen to each other, look in each other’s eyes and not at the clock, value and esteem one another, and help and praise each other, thus strengthening the relationship. It is crucial to find the time to share with our beloved and choose the moments of intimacy to provide the other person with companionship, trust, and a profound union.
Many solitudes, disappointments, sadness, distrust, distancing, lack of communication… come from “the lack of time shared together, just between us.” If you do not give conjugal love its time and space, any other occupation will separate you, including tending to your children and other family members. Attend to conjugal time and space! Without that air, without its atmosphere, sooner rather than later, you will drift apart and, instead of being intimate accomplices, you will become strangers to each other.
