Accompanying Couples Through Intimacy, Suffering, and Self-Gift

Every spiritual director and counselor who works with married people eventually hears the questions no seminar prepared them for. The bride who found the wedding night bewildering instead of beautiful. The couple quietly at war over how many children to have. The wife whose husband, decades in, "feels entitled" to intimacy her body can no longer bear. The spouse whose old wound resurfaces in the one place it was supposed to be safe.

This course sits in on a candid conversation about exactly those moments. A clinical psychologist, two lay spiritual directors, and a priest talk through the intimate questions couples actually bring — from the first year of marriage to old age — and model how to answer them with competence, tenderness, and Catholic clarity. You will come away steadier the next time one of these questions lands in your office, and clearer about the single idea that holds all of them together: sexuality as self-gift.