The Importance of Companionate Love in Marriage

Jonathan Haidt, an incredibly sharp psychologist, wrote a book on happiness. And he basically contrasts what are actually the happiest relationships. He says our culture understands and cares about passionate love,. raw sexual attraction, energy, dynamism, social media updates, online envy. Then over here you've got this, what he calls, companionate love. These are people who are like, gosh, I'm just think this person's like really smart. And yeah, that kind of sucks you too. Next slide is Ronald Rolheiser talking about our obsession with passion and sex. Sex cannot deliver the goods. It alleviates our loneliness too little, especially our moral lonely. Great love