persons. In other words, if you don’t realize you’re made for union and communion through a sincere gift of self, you’ll seek other sources of happiness. When this happens, our bodies are no longer the source of deeply personal and satisfying communion, but of frustration, hollowness, and pain (more about this in chapter 4). When my son was 10 years old, I tried to explain the spousal meaning of the body to him at the dinner table. After seeing his puzzled expression (I can’t imagine
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