Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Is Natural Family Planning a contradiction to Marital love?

The idea that a marriage between a man and a woman requires a willingness to sacrifice for one another and expect nothing in return should be no surprise to anyone. Historically speaking, the exercise of natural marriage encompassed the human and spiritual compatibilities between a man and a woman. Each possesses a unique identity that exhibits a unified spiritual, moral, and sexual compatibility that presents natural marriage as a sacrificial gift of grace as ordered through the sacrament of holy matrimony and not a utility that can be used as one’s pleasure at the expense of the other.