Have you ever wondered why your spouse dodges your attempts at affection or how quickly he or she shuts down any of your affection attempts? Or how a simple kiss gets treated like you’re asking for something much bigger? Well, in this episode I’m going to explain exactly why one partner who craves affection has […]| Get Your Marriage On!
In my last post, I reviewed the love of Affection, as C. S. Lewis explains it in his masterful work, The Four Loves. Lewis has affection for Affection, as he states near the end of that chapter, “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”| Pondering Principles
The first of the “four loves” that C. S. Lewis explains in his book with that title is Affection. The family is where affection may begin, but Lewis extends it further. “Almost anyone can become an object of Affection,” he notes, and then adds that one can also include “the ugly, the stupid, even the exasperating.” It ignores the barriers of age, sex, class, and education. It can exist between a clever young man from the university and an old... Read more »| Pondering Principles