and, at the same time, the continual ripening of the relationship between two people, in all the areas of activity which conjugal life includes. (p. 30) This is shown by the commitment a man and a woman make when they “give” themselves to each other and receive each other in marriage. In doing so they commit themselves irrevocably to one another by committing themselves to marriage—a lifelong and intimate covenant of love and life, and to its “goods,” i.e., faithful spousal love, the gift of children,