Why Love Is More than Feelings
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What is the role of feelings in romantic relationships and marriage? Dr. Sri explains that while emotions play an important role in relationships, they cannot be the foundation of love. Instead, real love requires commitment, clear judgment, and growth through challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
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| 0:12.1 | Hi, I'm Edwards 3, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:28.0 | If a man and women start dating and there's all these powerful feelings and emotions, romantic attraction, does that mean they're in love? |
| 0:32.9 | What about a couple who's been married for seven or 17 years? |
| 0:36.6 | And they don't have those powerful romantic feelings |
| 0:39.6 | anymore. Does that mean they're not in love? What about a married couple that's just not |
| 0:45.1 | connecting like they used to? But then one spouse notices an emotional attraction to somebody at work |
| 0:51.1 | or somebody at their parish and they like being around them and they think, oh, this other person gets me more than my spouse does. |
| 0:58.0 | And I have this emotional bond, this emotional connection. |
| 1:00.5 | Does that mean that that's a new relationship of love? |
| 1:04.6 | What is the proper role of the emotions in a relationship? |
| 1:08.4 | That's what we're going to take a look at in this week's podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, Edwards, Sri. And I'm continuing this little series, |
| 1:16.6 | we're a little mini series, the last couple of episodes on themes related to the book that I wrote |
| 1:20.7 | called Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love. And it's, all the insights here are not my own. |
| 1:26.2 | They're from St. John Paul II. And I'm really |
| 1:28.6 | excited that Ascension Press has now taken over the publishing of this book. So if you want to learn |
| 1:34.2 | more about this book I wrote, you can go to ascensionpress.com. Ascensionpress.com will have |
| 1:39.6 | men, women, and the mystery of love. I want to highlight something from JP2 that he noticed |
| 1:46.0 | when he wrote this book around 1959 is when he wrote this from his work with young people, |
| 1:51.7 | young university students, young married couples. And he wrote this book analyzing the different |
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