Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 473

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473. There are also lesser reasons, which are still genuinely weighty ones and cause separation from bed, but yet not from home. For instance, a wife's ceasing to be fertile as the result of advanced age, leading to unwillingness and reluctance in the face of expressions of love, although the husband's ardour persists; and similar circumstances in which the judgment of reason sees justice, provided they do not offend the conscience.


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