It Does Require Sacrifice
“Your vocation is to be a wife and a mother.” I read and re-read my grand-aunt’s letter to me. She was a holy, elderly Carmelite nun who had given me a one-on-one retreat a couple of weeks before my...
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I have been married for over 20 years. Before I married, I engaged in premarital sex. I was shy and didn’t know how to talk to guys, so I ended up drinking to get over that and that led to a lot of...
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My Difficult Marriage, and How it’s Actually Pretty Wonderful
For years I believed, and even told some people, that I have the best marriage I know of. My husband and I have our problems, but ultimately we forgive and love each other and want to grow closer to...
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Marriage, Divorce, and Forgiveness
I’m proud to be Catholic and try to live my life by the 10 commandments. But sometimes, just sometimes, we have to do the unthinkable. I think marriage is sacred and never in one million years would I...
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Porn Almost Destroyed my Marriage
So. Pornography. I have been watching this website for a while and I hoped that someone else would write about this. Hasn’t happened. I wish I didn’t have a story to tell, but maybe if I tell my...
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Have You Ever Been Truly Loved?
I tear up every time my daughter watches Frozen and gets past all the blockbuster songs to the climax of the movie. What gets me is the scene where Olaf the Snowman explains, “Love is putting someone...
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Unequally Yoked
When my husband and I got married we were both Catholic, but we weren’t fully practicing the faith. Not only were we not well formed, we didn’t know it. My husband and I went to Mass on Sunday...
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Healing Through an Annulment
My husband and I recently celebrated the first anniversary of our marriage in the Church – even though we’ve been married six years. We were originally married civilly in a small ceremony in October,...
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Weathering the Good and the Bad with this Man
I have written before about my marriage and the fruit of obeying the Church in being open to life. Now I am at the stage where I am getting too old for more babies. This has made me look at my marriage...
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My Husband Cheated: Healing and Thriving after Infidelity
I begin my story by giving all the glory to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Without Him, this story would have a completely different ending. It would have ended in divorce as most marriages with...
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