Fantastic reflection! 👏🏻👏🏻 I especially appreciated your statement about removing sex gatekeeping from your wife's role. NFP definitely should be a two person activity... Otherwise it really becomes more easily a burden to the wife, and her fertility can start feeling like a burden.
Society really ought to learn these things from the Catholics! 🥲 I feel so much pain for women and men who don't even know these gifts exist to strengthen their bond and help their health.
As someone who has dealt with infertility, I can also attest to the great gift NFP methods have been to me and our marriage, because otherwise the whole journey would have been even more stressful, confusing, and heartwrenching.
What a heartwarming and meaningful essay. I was pleasantly surprised at the openness and love reflected in your words. Blessings to you, your wife and lovely family.
I am not Catholic, but my husband and I have used NFP for the last eleven years- a little over half of our marriage. It does have its sacrifices, but I far, far prefer it to birth control. I never planned to use birth control when I got married (my mother hadn't), but then returning fertility quickly after my first pregnancy made me worried about Irish twins, and we used condoms and then after our third child an IUD. And then I got pregnant, with an IUD (thankfully my son was born safely!) and after that I learned first about FAM and then NFP, and it has been a major blessing to my life and marriage. I like reading about a couple's experience with NFP from a man's perspective.
Beautifully said. Yes, I knew about NFP. I used it to get pregnant because i never wanted to expose myself to all those cancer- causing, unnatural hormones. And yes, I was a high risk pregnancy too. You can read the whole thing on my stack if you want. It was amazing to learn things about my body. I taught it to my girls. One is now married and knows it way better than me. She goes to an OB who is a pro life, pro NFP Catholic, no contraceptive doc in Ann Arbor. Thank God for Ann Arbor's great Catholic community! Learning NFP enriched my faith beyond measure.
Fantastic reflection! 👏🏻👏🏻 I especially appreciated your statement about removing sex gatekeeping from your wife's role. NFP definitely should be a two person activity... Otherwise it really becomes more easily a burden to the wife, and her fertility can start feeling like a burden.
Society really ought to learn these things from the Catholics! 🥲 I feel so much pain for women and men who don't even know these gifts exist to strengthen their bond and help their health.
As someone who has dealt with infertility, I can also attest to the great gift NFP methods have been to me and our marriage, because otherwise the whole journey would have been even more stressful, confusing, and heartwrenching.
What a heartwarming and meaningful essay. I was pleasantly surprised at the openness and love reflected in your words. Blessings to you, your wife and lovely family.
I am not Catholic, but my husband and I have used NFP for the last eleven years- a little over half of our marriage. It does have its sacrifices, but I far, far prefer it to birth control. I never planned to use birth control when I got married (my mother hadn't), but then returning fertility quickly after my first pregnancy made me worried about Irish twins, and we used condoms and then after our third child an IUD. And then I got pregnant, with an IUD (thankfully my son was born safely!) and after that I learned first about FAM and then NFP, and it has been a major blessing to my life and marriage. I like reading about a couple's experience with NFP from a man's perspective.
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Beautifully said. Yes, I knew about NFP. I used it to get pregnant because i never wanted to expose myself to all those cancer- causing, unnatural hormones. And yes, I was a high risk pregnancy too. You can read the whole thing on my stack if you want. It was amazing to learn things about my body. I taught it to my girls. One is now married and knows it way better than me. She goes to an OB who is a pro life, pro NFP Catholic, no contraceptive doc in Ann Arbor. Thank God for Ann Arbor's great Catholic community! Learning NFP enriched my faith beyond measure.