#giveitupNFP Week 6 Challenge

By: Emily
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This Week Give up… limiting your expression of intimacy during periods of abstinence ************************ This is probably the most difficult challenge for me to write because this has been the most difficult challenge for me to live.  Sex is a gift and a seal, an act freely given that affirms and renews the covenant of…

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Home is Where We are Healed

By: Emily
A Look on the Bright Side, Catholic Culture, Family1 Comment on Home is Where We are Healed

It was only our second weekend looking at houses. We were going quite a bit further geographically than we were wanting to live, but we had found homes in our price range that were nicer and larger, so we felt it was worth a look. We had resigned ourselves to the reality that in order…

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#giveitupNFP Week 3 Challenge

By: Emily
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The rhetoric spouted in marriage prep for me and so many others can be summarized as selling the resurrection while hiding the crucifixion. Make no mistake, a healthy, happy marriage and sex life is not achieved without a lot of hard work and struggle.
So this week, give up what you heard in marriage prep about NFP that doesn’t make sense for your marriage

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