How NFP can be a Marriage Builder

Many couples find that learning Natural Family Planning together and living the NFP lifestyle strengthens their marriage. There are many reasons for this:

1. NFP provides couples with a built-in way of keeping a cycle of courtship and honeymoon in their marriage. To put it most briefly, this prevents either spouse from taking their sexual relationship for granted. It also prevents them from putting their whole approach to intimacy in their marriage on one aspect of their relationship: their sexual love for each other.

2. Couples who practice NFP find that by being able to talk over and decide mutually about their aspirations and desires for birth control also helps them with their decisions in other critical areas of their marriages: finances, "in-law" strategies, how to rear their children, and many other issues.

3. Wives testify to their satisfaction and appreciation of their husbands, who exhibit self-control and a willingness to sacrifice pleasure for the sake of mutually agreed values--truly impressive character traits in our decadent, self-centered culture. Husbands speak to us of feeling a sense of privilege in being let into knowledge of their wives' fertility, an understanding few other men can claim to have. Even if it seems more convenient for husbands to just let their wives "take care of this women's business," most NFP-using husbands would rather have the true equality this knowledge introduces into their marriages, marriages that pay more than lip service to the "one flesh" that they have become through their vows.

We will continually try to update this page with articles that speak to the joys and hardships involved in becoming NFP users.

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