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8. To Love is an Integral Part of Human Nature

With implantation in the womb there then begins the first relationship for this new human being between himself and a person who is not him. This other person is his mother and he is her child in this relationship from now on. This relationship of existential dependence lasts intra-uterine for about nine months and extra-uterine for about 15 years. This means that a woman’s life also changes fundamentally when she is pregnant, her body is transformed into a mother’s body and, with her whole existence, she is now responsible for a new human being and its wellbeing and needs.

THE FEAR OF PREGNANCY

I wonder if in the animal and plant kingdoms there is a fear on the part of the females of a species of becoming pregnant or being fertilised? Certainly it exists with us humans. For example, my mother was afraid of getting pregnant when she got pregnant with me.

10 Joachim Bauer (2002). Das Gedächtnis des Körpers. Wie Beziehungen und Lebensstile unsere Gene steuern (‘The Memory of the Body. How relationships and lifestyles control our genes’ has not been translated into English).