Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 403

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403. (14) The state of love that wives have before conception is of one character, and of another character after conception to the time of birth. We mention this in order to make known that a love of procreating and the subsequent love of the child procreated are implanted in women in their conjugial love, but that these two loves are separated in her when the end, which is the love of procreating, commences its progress. It is apparent from a number of indications that love for the child or storg- is then transmitted from the wife to the husband, and also that the love of procreating, which in a woman is united, as said, with her conjugial love, is then not the same.


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