Keeping the Romance Alive in Your Catholic Marriage

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Romance Isn’t Optional — It’s Covenantal

There’s a story many couples tell themselves, usually somewhere around year three or seven or twelve: romance fades, that’s just what happens. The butterflies belong to courtship. The candles and long conversations belong to the early years. What remains is something steadier, more honest, more real.

There’s a grain of truth in that. Infatuation does change. But the Church — and specifically John Paul II’s Theology of the Body — refuses to let us conflate the loss of infatuation with the natural death of romance itself. That conflation is where so many marriages quietly begin to hollow out.

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Keeping the Romance Alive in Your Catholic Marriage

Romance Isn’t Optional — It’s Covenantal