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I would like to discuss in this paper three articles that will open new horizons in my attitude to marriage issues. Three articles are different between each other and their content allows me to plunge into marriage issues with more details.
The first article has a title From Libido to Love: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Redemption of Sexuality and was written by Marie Hoffman in 2007. This article looks like case study, because real life situations are described in it. In my opinion this article is interesting from Christian points of view, because libido is contradicts to true love and real feelings. I believe in spiritual nature of love and in my opinion, true love can change human nature and author of the article proved this fact with real examples. All people have their behavioral patterns, but it possible to change them in relate to beloved person based on main principles of Christian morale. Hoffman (2007) demonstrated the next variants of marriage therapy: “Recognizing the patient’s internal warfare between old patterns and new ways of being, the analyst allows himself/herself to be pulled into the battlefield in a process called enactment.” I think that this article does not change my point of view, but give me new examples of fact that Christian morality can help people to improve their marriage relationships and somehow find internal harmony and understanding.
The second article is Listening to Sexual Minorities on Christian College Campuses written by Yarhouse and others. This article is also reflects Christian morale, but from another side than it was discussed in previous article. Authors raised problems of sexual minorities and their isolation and invisibility. In acknowledgement of these words, it is necessary to quote Yarhouse and others (2007) who said that “What contributes to the campus climate being largely negative? Christian colleges, such as the ones that participated in this study, have statements of faith and conduce that affirm sexual expression in heterosexual marriage and prohibit premarital, extramarital, and alternative sexual expression. This is perhaps not surprising to those who have noted that most world religions view heterosexuality as normative. For example, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam draw upon the creation narrative and what has historically been viewed as the revealed will of the Creator with respect to heterosexual sexuality and sexual expression.” I think that the authors of the article were right in their statement that Christian morality should be more patient to sexual minorities. I believe that as a problem solution can be advised a variation of different talks about homosexual love, for example, because if God created all people than people with normal orientation should respect individual sexual minorities and change their attitude to them in better side.
The third article is Catholic & Cohabiting; Church Helps Couples Prepare for Marriage that was published in The Washington Post in 2007. This article open for us attitude of church to cohabiting and this event in our live discussed from the position of marriage preparation. According to the article Catholic & Cohabiting (2007): “The widespread acceptance of cohabitation “presents pastoral difficulties since there is no formal commitment between the couple,” said Bishop Jean-Louis Plouffe of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. “So the church cannot accept this relationship because it involves sexual intimacy outside marriage.” However, this position shows us that situation in our century greatly changed and church as an instance that try to protect family values and marriage should be more loyal to our new young couples that are not ready to get married. Church representatives emphasised that today also many couples without any pressure seeks for marriages and that is why it is not necessary to force young people to get married, because family has become a kind of trend again and in several years they will understand how to live together in positive and moral way. Our life is not perfect, but we remember about traditions of our ancestors and marriage is necessary part of our life that not only control relationships in couple, but also makes the feelings stronger and helps to find true love and happiness. I agree with positions that presented in the article and I believe in fact that children that were born in marriage will be happier, because the marriage of their parents proves that family values are important for couple and they will try to educate their children in the right way.
Thus, reviewing and analyzing three articles I want to say that there were discussed different problems of human sexuality and marriage issues in this paper. I have chosen religious direction of this paper and specially look at different problems from positions of Christian morality, because I was interesting in these questions and due to this paper, I understood that my previous thoughts were right and new facts were necessary for my further development in this area of knowledge.

 
References:
Catholic & Cohabiting; Church Helps Couples Prepare for Marriage. (2007, September 25). The Washington Times.
Hoffman, M. (2007). “From Libido to Love: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Redemption of Sexuality.” Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 35. Issue: 1.
Yarhouse, M., Stratton, S., Dean, J. and Brooke, H. (2007). Listening to Sexual Minorities on Christian College Campuses. Journal of Psychology and Theology. Vol. 37. Issue: 2.