Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 278

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278. (7) The result is apparent love, or apparent friendship and favor, between the partners. Instances of apparent love, friendship and favor develop in consequence of the fact that the marriage covenant is a compact to the end of life, and in consequence of the conjugial community of life graven on the two thus pledged, which gives birth to outward affections resembling inward ones, as indicated just above. In addition, they develop also in consequence of considerations that are useful and matters of necessity. It is partly such considerations which give rise to outward affections either shared or simulated, which cause an outward love or an outward friendship to appear as though it were an inward one.


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