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EspañolWant to know what intimate companionship and trust are? Be faithful in your love, and you will have them. Exclusive and lifelong fidelity is an infallible symptom of authentic and good love. The only one you can trust with your intimacy.
Do not fool yourself or fool others. Although it occurs daily, a love that fades and ends was never complete, whole, and sincere love. If it cannot be love tomorrow, then it was not love yesterday, nor is it such today.
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“They (the families who remain faithful to the teachings of the Gospel) bear witness, in a credible way, to the beauty of marriage as indissoluble and perpetually faithful.” (The Joy of Love, n.86)
Commentary
A union of conjugal love, faithful, fruitful, and lifelong, is a union that is cared for, tended to, and fought for every day by its spouse. It is never the fruit of change, carelessness, luck, laziness, mistreatment. It can be, at times, sacrificial. However, it is always good. Moreover, because it is good, it enriches its lovers, makes them mature, gives them light and wisdom in the face of life. And to their lives, unity instead of fragmentation and loss of identity.
These families are a concrete model and proof that the so-called “you and I, in exclusive union for life” is not old-fashioned or meant for those who long for past times, but very current. They are those marriages “of flesh and blood,” which, with their experiences, joy, and adversities, show us the real and concrete way to profound happiness, the realistic one, through the permanent gift of oneself and embrace of others.
Fidelity is the truth of love beyond wear and tear and life changes. Fidelity is the victory of love over time, its epochs, and seasons.
Fidelity bears its unique fruits: authentic, intimate companionship and trust. On the other hand, infidelity brings insecurities, distrust, destruction of identity, and intimate loneliness.
