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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP expecting my fourth. OP, I'm not Catholic, but a Protest Christian. Nowhere in the teachings of my church - which relies on the teachings of the Bible, and not a secondary set of church-created literature - is there any indication that contraception is somehow damaging. Sex outside of a committed loving relationship?  On the no list. Sex with my spouse with use of contraceptives?  A-okay.

I cannot fathom how anyone can buy the idea that it's better to have a sexless marriage than a marriage with a healthy and unifying sex life in which contraceptives are used. The idea that you simply CANNOT sever the procreative aspect from the unifying is very much throwing the baby out with the bath water. It means that my spouse and I are not allowed the unifying part unless we're game for the procreative part - even if the procreative part would be disastrous.

Your prescription for my marriage would almost certainly result in depression, anger, and likely divorce. Sex is absolutely unifying and a way we share ourselves with each other and affirm our bond. But we can't handle more kids. That's an honest assessment of who we are as people. So your advice is that I either follow a path that will lead to depression, anger, and probably divorce (no sex) or a path that will lead to depression, anger and probably divorce (continuing to procreate). I'm confident that God is entirely comfortable with option C - birth control. The Catholic church may object, but the Catholic church is not in fact God.

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