Wow. Your husband sounds like some seriously damaged goods. This thread should be required reading for every newlywed. This thread hits close to home, since the errors and worldliness described in the husband are precisely what my whole life has been about opposing. The foolishness of American worldly culture, also known as suburban or middle-class. Everyone lives the same way, even though the system just doesn't work (as shown by marriage success rates, happiness, prescription drug use, number of children raised, number of children with problems, etc.)
Your husband is chasing a phantom. There is no real happiness in having tons of money, going to Disneyland once a year, living in a cookie-cutter house in a subdivision, eating out a different ethnic food every day, and all that crap. It is emptiness and has no purpose. With the lifestyle he has chosen, around age 40 one or both spouses will get depressed and either divorce or abuse drugs, whether illegal or prescription drugs. Does your husband know what percent of middle-aged career women are on depression medication? The career path is stupidity, a complete illusion that unfortunately many people fall for.
Another danger is for the wife to accidentally find a much more conservative man "at work" (ironically, she is there by her husband's will) and her emotional nature will work against her. Even if the woman doesn't mean for it to happen, it will be a strong temptation and this has happened to millions of women in her situation. Few women are able to rise above the strong pull of a true man who isn't a selfish boy who wants leisure and lots of toys, especially if said man shows her any amount of care, attention or concern. As another poster pointed out, emotion doesn't last. There needs to be some union deeper than that. You may both be Traditional Catholic, but in your husband's case that just means sitting through a Latin Mass for an hour on Sunday. Other than that, you two are from two different planets.
How many divorces have happened because the woman meets a man at work, whether by accident or on purpose? And how many of those women were there because the husband actually wanted her to work, so they could live better and what not? I'm guessing a large percentage of them. These husbands get what they deserve, frankly. It's sad that the women are often innocent at least originally, but they get damaged as well by divorce, remarriage, and their souls get corrupted in the process. But these worldly or liberal Catholic husbands are foolish to force their wives to work outside the home. And sure enough, according to Fr. Ripperger, this is actually a mortal sin for the husband.
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