This is a true love story. I realize it may not seem so for some but for myself and those who believe as I do it is the closest that we on earth can come to paradise. Keep in mind that not everyone can believe and love in the same manner. (And please excuse my use of some very basic terminology for some body parts as I was attempting to use the language that my husband and I use in our intimate moments.)
Growing up I always wanted to be a wife and mother. I was the eldest in a family of twelve and I always marvelled at how my mother and father lived in perfect harmony. I can't ever remember a cross word being spoken between them. That happiness was what I wanted for myself when I married.
As I approached my eighteenth birthday an introduction was arranged between the son of another family in our church and myself. He was twenty years old and already well established in his family business. After that initial meeting supervised thrice-weekly 'dates' were arranged between us. Even from the beginning I found him very attractive, tall, muscular and very athletic and very soon I found myself falling in love with him even though we were never allowed to even touch each other - and he said that he was feeling the same way.
He was invited to my birthday which included both his family and mine and at that party just after the birthday cake was served he stood up and asked my father if he could ask for my hand in marriage. My father readily agreed and then before all present he turned to me and proposed. I excitedly accepted. We had never even kissed and he was the first boyfriend I had ever had but I was sure that he was the only one in the world for me.
Then came a period of pre-marital counselling. This involved my going to stay at the home of a young couple also from the church - the woman was to be my mentor and her husband was to counsel my fiance but that was to be at another location and it did not require my fiance living away from his home. This would take one month.
Marion, my mentor, was in the eighth month of her fourth pregnancy.
As the days passed she talked to me at length about how when she married she gave her husband the greatest gift that anyone can bestow upon another human being - herself. And she went on to explain that no gift is a true gift unless it is given without any reservations. It was at that time that she reached her pinnacle of happiness. She had only been half alive up to that time. She was firm in her belief that true love does not know the word 'no.' Her body was her husband's because she had given it to him and as such she would never refuse to allow him full use of it. It was not just enough to submit to him but it must be done with a joyful, giving heart. Anything less would deceitful.
Then she would tenderly place her hand on her distended stomach and say that each time that he filled her with his love and it became a growing child her happiness was complete.
Marion showed me a video of an animated view of a woman's reproductive tract. It was beautifully done with soft music and flowers and a soft-voiced narrator. Each part and its function was described. Then an animated penis entered the vagina and proceeded up the channel as the music reached a crescendo the penis ejected a fluid - this fluid went to meet a waiting egg and soon it began to grow.
Marion then explained that one of her greatest joys was during intercourse and as he was depositing his seed into her she would visualize her eggs coming down to meet his sperm. She would actually keep saying to herself, "Please fertilize me and make it so I can carry your baby within me."
She went on to tell me that her husband was a man with a great appetite when it came to lovemaking and that often he would ask her to have intercourse many times during a day but as she had given him the gift of her body she would never dream of refusing and she always complied with love and joyfulness and in that she would get the greatest reward in spite of any physical discomfort. She said that when she was in the last stages of her pregnancy he would ask her to satisfy him in other ways which she did not elaborate on. In fact during my month in their home I would see a look pass between them, usually when he returned from work in the afternoon and then again in the evening. She would then quietly ask me to watch the children for 'a few minutes' while she did a little task for her husband. In about half an hour she would reappear with a flushed face and a dreamy smile. I suspected they were making love but I could not understand how it would be possible with her huge stomach - surely it would be very uncomfortable to have a man lie on top of her. Perhaps they were doing it in the 'other way' she had referred to.
She advised me when my husband and I were having intercourse to keep repeating the mantra of, "Please enter me and fill me with your seed" as I willed my eggs to come down and join with his sperm each time we had intercourse. Anything less would be basing my marriage on deceit.
There were many more videos showing beautiful women who were in varying stages of pregnancy and who were positively glowing in their happiness. It became evident to me that that was how one reached the ultimate in beauty and self-realization.
When Marion went into labour I was allowed to watch the birth. Her husband was there supporting her and they kept professing their love for each other as she struggled through the delivery. Then as she held the newborn to nurse at her breast and he encircled his arms around her I was filled with the wonder of it all. I was filled with anticipation for the time when I would be in the same position with my own husband.
I helped Marion with her newborn for the following weeks. During this time she confided to me that as soon as all discharge from the birth had cleared up she would be able to resume marital relations with her husband and she was eagerly awaiting that time. In the meantime she said that if he needed her to give him release she would use other methods but she seemed too shy to elaborate. She merely said that my husband would explain all that to me in good time.