Reaction Paper in Bioethics

Marriage life is not that easy as we think. There are many struggles and difficulties that
they may face together, but how about the couple who were miles apart from each other?
Especially having a seaman husband and they have no child.

As for Rose's extramarital relationship with her ex-boyfriend, I am not in favor of it,
since she just had a problem with her husband. She just experienced a lack of totality because
according to what I have read before, "Marriage life comes with big responsibility, and it will
change even your smallest lifestyle and will make you feel selfless because you have to think
about your better half's welfare all the time." In the Principle of Totality and its Integrity, totality
implies wholeness, completeness, and entirety. Rose was too affected because her husband had
no time for her, there might be no more intimacy, which is vital for a married couple but she
should see the bigger picture or the whole, which they have gone through a lot together for ten
years, and they can fix it. She can talk to him about her sentiments regarding his merrymaking.
She can ask a favor to join him wherever he goes and no one files for an annulment of their
marriage, so she should not become intimate with another man. The principle also pursues the
issue of the dignity of the whole person, in essence, the integrity of human life. Rose is a married
woman; she should protect her dignity and have integrity to her husband because what she was
doing was adultery.

Rose is not the only one who had a problem in this case. Primarily, it starts with her
husband, Mark. He sailed on a Cruise Ship for ten months a year and spent only his 2 months
vacation with his wife, but he chose to always go out for merrymakings and justified his action
by saying that he deserved a break and he has no child to attend to. The Principle of Stewardship
pertains to the management and supervision of another person. As a husband and a behalf of
Rose, Mark should always check if she was okay about his actions. He should be more sensitive
enough, so he will not hurt the feelings of his wife. The principle also entails concomitant values
and virtues of responsibility and accountability. Therefore, Mark should fulfill his responsibility
to his wife because they only see each other for 2 months in a year. And Rose was not only
accountable for not having an offspring, but Mark was also accountable for it, which associates
the Principle of Personalized Sexuality. Sex is essential; especially for married couples, because
it is their mutual self-giving of love to find complete fulfillment not just in orgasm but in
children.