By: Rosario Alfaro Martínez (psycotherapist)

1. When you learn how to use them, they are easy, safe and reliable.

2. Increase communication between the couple because both of them are cooperating with nature for their physical and moral goodness.

3. They help to integrate the couple, since natural methods require from a total and complete communication and cooperation between spouses.

4. They are free, so you do not need money in order to have access to them.

5. They are based upon respect, dialogue, common responsibility and self-control. Under this scheme, spouses are going to exercise their intellectual capacity in a field that until recently, was considered to be purely instinctive and out of the intelligence dominion.

6. Natural methods make that each member of the couple psychologically gets more mature constantly, trying to be less selfish and getting closer to the other.

7. Love, respect and devotion to one another are the key of natural regulation of fertility: communication and dialogue must be very fluid between the couple; both members have to be aware of the woman’s cycle.

8. Natural methods are systems that seek a total and absolute respect for life. It respects the natural order because they allow to express conjugal love through sexual relations without the probability of pregnancy. Not all natural sexual relations end in pregnancy. But the couple has to be conscious of when it is possible to conceive.

9. Natural methods demand from a psychosocial maturity, which means the stable harmony between heart and head, between feelings and intelligence.

10. It has been proved that divorce rate decreases with the use of natural methods. The divorced couples average in the world today is 50%; 2% of which use natural methods and the others use contraceptives.

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