https://vitaesacra.com/tags/marriage-guide/Recent content in Marriage-Guide on Vitae Sacra — Catholic Marriage, Intimacy & WellnessHugoen-usSat, 16 May 2026 18:31:21 +0200https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/catholic-guide-to-marital-intimacy/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/catholic-guide-to-marital-intimacy/<p>You got married. You meant every word of the vows. You believed — genuinely, wholeheartedly — that your marriage would be different, that the love you felt at the altar would carry you through whatever came next. And for a while, maybe a long while, it did.</p> <p>And then something shifted. Not dramatically. Not in a way you could point to on a calendar. But somewhere along the way, the intimacy that once felt effortless began to feel effortful. The conversations grew more logistical than personal. The physical closeness that used to be a language became a negotiation, or a silence, or a source of quiet disappointment that neither of you knew how to name.</p>