and doesn’t expect my emotional needs to be met in return. My love for him does not go up and down; it does not depend on whether he is good or bad. Nor do I expect him to care for my emotional needs. I didn’t realize it then, but the Holy Spirit was tutoring me in spiritual motherhood. In fact, it wasn’t until I read John Paul II’s Letter to Women4 and On the Dignity and Vocation of Women that I discovered the name for what I was doing—it is called spiritual motherhood,
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