Conscious decision of couple to practice chastity with marriage through periodic abstinence. Self-mastery of this area of marriage influences other areas of marriage: finances, child raising, extended family relationships. Marriage as whole is now ordered as God designed and couples are free to experience marital union empowered by the knowledge of where they are with their couple fertility. Children will be blessed living in a household where the parents have worked to improve their intimacy in a rightly ordered way resulting in closeness that spills over to the whole family (Olmsted, 2018, number 56).