key messages for young people
       from a Christian vision of love and relationships

6   The ultimate sexual expression of such attraction should be an expression of true love, in which you commit to being faithful in marriage to a husband or wife, for life.  Such total gift of self - body, emotions and soul - is a great responsibility and requires careful preparation and total commitment by both partners. 



 "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws . . . God himself is the author of marriage. The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they come from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures and spiritual attitudes." (CCC, no.1603)