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Can a true sexual harmony be reduced to the simple and exclusive [
If by consummation, we mean ‘completeness' and the mutual enrichment of the spouses, such consummation requires more from them [...], it requires understanding, knowledge, esteem, affection, balance, psychological and spiritual adaptation, all of which cannot be done in an instant [...].
Therefore, if the Church can dissolve a marriage as long as it has not been consummated – physically – what would happen [...] if we were to approach dissolution from this broader concept of consummation? Footnote 59
Forcano used a similar argument with impotence, which was also grounds for annulment. ‘An impotent marriage can be dissolved. Nevertheless, is true impotence only carnal and physical?' he wondered. Footnote 60 He thus implied that impotence could also be defined as the inability to perform emotionally. As Forcano explained, the absence of an affective union, something that he regarded as continuous day-to-day work to be developed in the long term, could qualify for an annulment, since the objectives of marriage had not been met. Similarly, another author played with the idea of the ‘death' of the spouses as the only end azerbaijan dating for marriage.
He wondered whether the ‘death' of love could be another type of demise that could justify divorce:
So, if marriage [...] is love, community, understanding, affection, desire to have children, mutual help between husband and wife, contract, but one day all this disappears and, between the spouses, there is no desire to have children; nor love, but something that borders on hatred; nor understanding and help, but desire to not see the other spouse anymore, can it be said that marriage continues to exist, that this contract has not been broken? [...]