Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 258

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258. (xxii) The third accidental cause of coldness is the wife's giving notice of her love and talking about it.

Among the angels in heaven there is no refusal or repugnance on the part of wives, as there is in some cases on earth. Among the angels in heaven wives are willing to talk about love, and do not keep the same silence as some wives on earth. But I am unable, since it would not be proper for me, to disclose the reasons for these differences. Still reference may be made to the statements by the wives of angels, freely uttered in front of their husbands, which are recorded in the four accounts of experiences at the ends of chapters: the three wives in the court over which the golden rain was seen [155bis, 208], and the seven who were sitting in the rose-garden [293-4]. These accounts are given so that everything may be revealed about conjugial love, the subject of this work both in general and in particular.


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