Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 403

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403. (xiv) The state of love in wives is different before they conceive from what it is afterwards up to the time of birth.

This point is brought in to make it known that the love of procreating, and hence the subsequent love of what is procreated, is innate in women's conjugial love. These two loves in their* case are divided, when the purpose, the love of procreating, begins to develop. There is plenty of evidence that then parental affection is transferred from the wife to the husband, and also that then the love of procreating, which, as already said, in the case of a woman makes one with her conjugial love, is not similar. * The original has 'her'.


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