The Art of Marriage by Catherine Blyth

Author:Catherine Blyth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

7. JUST DO IT

IVF clinics attribute growing demand for fertility treatment to hectic modern lifestyles. It seems that many couples neglect small ceremonies like going to bed together. All should heed the earliest recorded marriage guidance, deployed by twelfth-century pope Eugenius III on Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who came to him seeking an annulment to their fruitless union. Instead, the Pope led them to a silk-lined chamber and commanded them to make good use of the magnificent bed. When they left, she was pregnant. But the truce did not last, because, Eleanor protested, she had “married a monk, not a king.”

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