Committed and Infatuated

Proverbs 5:11-20:

15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Continuing the theme of marital faithfulness from this chapter, the warning of infidelity is strong. Conservative Christians, myself included, can sometimes be guilty of taking the romance out of Biblical marriage. Commitment to your spouse, although included in these verses, is paralleled with the enjoyment of your spouse. Infatuation it seems, is not to avoided, just appropriately directed to our partner.