Abstract
[...]companionship is interacting with one's spouse as a fellow traveler, an interaction in which the spouses share and give/ receive nourishment. [...]a spirituality will be realized to the extent one participates in communion, mutuality, intimacy, and companionship. [...]for Gaillardetz, marriage is considered the locus of personal conversion and the working out of salvation-not only in terms of what one actively receives, but through the asceticism of married life as well: ". . . the graciousness and sacramentality of married life is not limited to expressions of marital intimacy. [...]Gaillardetz takes up the specific challenge of parenting children and how this shapes our spiritual journey within the marital commitment.