From over sixty years of experience in Natural Family Planning, and countless testimonials from couples using the Symptothermal Method we have found it encourages couples to engage in open communication and mutual decision making.  It increases the couple’s mutual respect for each other and creates opportunities for increased intimacy.

Nothing is like the intimacy gained from talking about your sexuality.

Open Communication

Using the Symptothermal Method requires open communication and active participation from both individuals. This allows the man to be aware of and sensitive to his wife’s cycle of fertility and the effects this has on her. This in turn can facilitate better and more open communication.

Increased Intimacy

Times of abstinence can be difficult for couples; however most couples find that these periods are actually times of increased intimacy. Since the couple has made this decision together, they have to work together during these times. This period often allows for deeper conversations and coming to know your partner in new ways.

Mutual Respect

By discussing and understanding all the different observations of fertility, the man can come to see the beauty of the woman’s natural cycle of fertility. He learns to appreciate and respect her fertility. The woman learns to respect the man’s constant fertility.  His fertility is not something she needs to be protected from. It is in this way that the couple learns mutual respect of each other’s fertility, and by extension, each other.

Mutual Decision Making

Both partners participate in the charting. This creates opportunities to make mutual decision about engaging in intercourse based on their joint desire to conceive or avoid pregnancy. The burden of family planning is not put solely on the woman. As a result, the couple participates equally in decisions about family planning. Couples need to make decisions together in all facets of their shared lives, including planning their family.

The benefits couples experience when using the Symptothermal Method help them to form a stronger bond.

To experience these benefits and learn more about the Symptothermal Method, contact your local Serena organization with questions or locate a teaching session.