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64 Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses: How and Why

Episode 64 Published 4 years, 11 months ago
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  1. Intro
     
    1. It is good to have you with us,
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    1. Peter Malinoski, clinical psychologist
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    1. Interior Integration for Catholics 

    1. Part of our Online outreach Souls and Hearts and soulsandhearts.com
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    1. Episode 64 released April 19, 2021
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    1. Subtle Ways Catholics Cheat on their Spouses:  How and Why.
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    1. Getting into natural level issues around our commitment, the covenant a husband and a wife make in a Catholic sacramental marriage.  

  9. Brief Review -- Canopied Marriage Bed
     
    1. Description of each part of the bed -- symbolism of each part, what each part represents.  
      1.  The rock-solid floor in the bedroom is the Foundation -- The presence of God -- and an active belief in God's Providence
         
        1. This is the foundation
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        1. Childlike trust, absolute confidence
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        1. Reflects the reality of our existential dependence and God's paternal care, Mary's maternal care for us.  

      5. Four legs -- now more in the natural realm
         
        1. Leg 1 -- the husband's commitment to his own interior integration, his own human formation, his psychological health, his emotional wellbeing -- removing the beam from his own eye -- last episode. Episode 63
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        1. Leg 2.  the wife's commitment to her own interior integration, her own human formation, her own psychological health, her own emotional wellbeing -- her taking on her own personal responsibility for her natural life  last episode. Episode 63
           
          1. Definition of Human Formation  Human formation is the lifelong process of natural development, aided by grace, by which a person integrates all aspects of his interior emotional, cognitive, relational, and bodily life, all of his natural faculties in an ordered way, conformed with right reason and natural law so that he is freed from natural impediments to trust God as His beloved child and to embrace God's love.  Then, in return, because he possesses himself, he can love God, neighbor and himself with all of his natural being in an ordered, intimate, personal, and mature way.
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          1. That is what we are focused on in this podcast.  Human formation:
             
            1. This podcast helps you focus inward on your interior integration -- to help you bring together the different parts of yourself into unity and harmony with God.
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            1. Together, we are on a journey toward deep transformation, a radical conversion at the core of our being so that our souls can one day enter into contemplative union with God.
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        1. Leg 3.  Attachment Needs and Integrity Needs --  Episode 62,
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        1. Leg 4.  Internal Family Systems approaches -- understanding deeply how the human person is both a unity and a multiplicity -- like an orchestra is a unity -- one orchestra, but also has within it multiplicity, multiple musicians -- check out Episodes 60 and 61
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      10. The Frame  and the Box Spring -- this holds the whole bed together and it represents the firm commitment between the husband and the wife, the upholding of the marriage vows,  
        1. We are focusing on this today.  The commitment, the vows of Catholic married life
        2. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.  
        3. It's the charity.  Willing the highest good for one another
      11. The Mattress -- Empathetic attunement -- really knowing the spouse, really being able to enter into the phenomenological world of the spouse
      12. Bottom sheet fitted sheet -- sexual attraction, the intensity of sexual passion -- hinges on all that is underneath it.  Can't you just help us get
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