There's always more to discover with an AARP membership! Learn about your member benefits. Has your relationship ended up in a sexual desert? Perhaps the two of you went through a rough patch often occasioned by a health scare and stopped making love. Then — even though you never imagined a dry spell could become the prevailing climate — that desert began to seem too vast to cross. So how do you end the drought?

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The Church gives us a great gift in her teaching on sexuality and conjugal love the embodied love of husband and wife in marriage. Our faith calls every couple to a love that is full, total, faithful and fruitful: open to God, each other, and the gift of children. There are always challenges for couples in trying to live this out this beautiful vision.