" A professor of sociology is quoted as saying " A lot of young people report cohabitation is almost serving as a trial marriage. They think it might help them find out how compatible they are."
Think about the irony here.
How can you have a "trial" of something that, by its very nature, is permanent and total? You can't test a permanent commitment by not making a commitment!
'...marriage is an intimate partnership in which husbands and wives learn to give and recieve love unselfishly. You can't learn to 'give and recieve love unselfishly' outside of a permanent commitment because by its very nature of the relationship you're already holding back."
I'd never thought about it like that before, but it's so true!
How can you possibly testing out a permanent situation, by living in a non-permanent situation?!
The latter can't ever accuratly reflect what the former will truely be like!
Also note how they say that in marriage you 'learn to love'. You aren't expected to have it perfected at the start!
"The idea is to grow together, and only within a sacramental marriage do you have the graces of that sacrament to help you.'
This is taken from the Editorial of 'Family Foundations' which is the Couple-to-Couple League's official magazine. It is based on the document "Married Love and the Gift of Life" written by the US Bishops. It is a seriously good document. All about marriage, sex, contraception and natural family planning. It is written is a very very easy to digest manner. I really recommend reading it helps clarify lots of misunderstandings that many people have, espcially about what the Church teaches regarding contraception & NFP (i.e. that contraception is wrong, but NFP is not), and this document explains is very simply.
READ IT HERE-
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