[adiaireton8]

I mean, here you are, newly married, and you can't consummate with your wife. I don't see him being a strong force in the Lord's life as a youth if you cannot show your love to your wife, even as a stepfather to a stepson.

So a boy has to see his parents having sexual intercourse in order for his father to be a strong force in his life? Do you have children???

-A8

[Sybeck1]

Maybe sharing the same bed or an embrace. I by no means meant it graphic.

[mockingbyrd]

So a boy has to see his parents having sexual intercourse in order for his father to be a strong force in his life?

In the end, I think that almost all these disagreements between Catholics and Protestants can be boiled down to views on sexual morality.(especially all these threads on Our Lady's Perpetual Virginity and such....) To me, my husband is a true man, full of strength and love, because he accepts and loves me completely. As a result of this love, at times. we don't express it physically because we love whole person, including their unencumbered fertility. It takes a real man to be able to love his wife so completely that he would deny himself his own gratification for her good, his good and the good of the whole family. And only such a man can teach his son how to be a man. St. Joseph was such a man.