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This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

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The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many...more

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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on...more

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Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a s...more

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Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying ...more

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One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot...more