What Would Laura Doyle’s Six Intimacy Skills Look Like If They Were Actually Catholic?: An Addiction-Aware Reflection Worksheet for Catholic Wives

What Would Laura Doyle’s Six Intimacy Skills Look Like If They Were Actually Catholic?

Laura Doyle’s Six Intimacy Skills are increasingly being presented to Catholic women as a path toward happier, more intimate marriages. But what happens when we examine those skills through Catholic moral theology—especially in a marriage affected by pornography, sexual addiction, deception, abuse, or coercive control?

This free reflection worksheet takes each of Doyle’s six skills—self-care, relinquishing control, respect, receiving, gratitude, and vulnerability—and asks what it would look like if the goal were not producing a desired response from your husband, but remaining faithful to truth, authentic love, human dignity, moral responsibility, protection of the vulnerable, and your husband’s genuine good.

You’ll find a Catholic reorientation of each skill, reflection questions to help you discern how it applies in your own marriage, and an examination of Doyle’s “Spouse-Fulfilling Prophecy” through the lens of addiction and Christian hope.

Because Christian hope is not manifestation. Hope looks directly at what is true and still believes redemption is possible.

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