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Author Topic: Should I force myself to get married with someone?  (Read 11015 times)

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Re: Should I force myself to get married with someone?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2023, 08:20:41 AM »
Do you with your mom and dad now?

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Re: Should I force myself to get married with someone?
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2023, 08:22:57 AM »

Actually I think if I have a choice, I may even like the idea of Josephite marriage (which I believe most people here are against), or even simply moving in with another like-minded single traditional catholic girl(s) near an active catholic community, support each other and live a life similar to religious life. But it seems totally impractical and impossible to find someone like that :facepalm:.
Do you hold the "Resistance" position, or at least supportive of Bishop Williamson, the SAJM and Dominicans of Avrielle? If so, then I suggest you go talk to either Bishop Zendejas (NY/CT) or Fr. Brocard (KS) depending on which one is closer to you and explain your situation and let them know you would like to meet "other likeminded single traditional Catholic girls."

If you prefer SSPX, then go to any of the big parishes and talk to the pastor about your situation, concerns, etc.  


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Re: Should I force myself to get married with someone?
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2023, 08:23:14 AM »
Meanwhile lots of young men say they don't consider a vocation because they're attracted to females. SMH
Could men be any more different from women?

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Re: Should I force myself to get married with someone?
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2023, 08:26:50 AM »
Why is it that so many women are asɛҳuąƖ these days? Completely uninterested in sex, repulsed by it even, in any context, even in the context of marriage? Is there something in the water that only women are drinking? Maybe they should share it with the men, as they don't seem to have this problem with normal sɛҳuąƖ attraction. Their bodies work as God designed. "Be fruitful and multiply". I'm not trying to be mean, and it's almost certainly not your fault, but there is technically something wrong with you. The only question is what. It could be estrogen in the water supply. It could be something related to why you turned down a religious vocation. How did you determine the religious life wasn't your vocation by the way?
I don't think it has anything to do with being asɛҳuąƖ. Or even about sex. Many virgins in history rather die over a marriage, it doesn't mean they don't have normal functionality or attraction to men. 



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To become a saint in the world, it is necessary for the married woman to adopt the means of sanctification, to frequent the sacraments, to make long and frequent mental prayer, to practise many interior and exterior mortifications, to love contempt, humiliations, and poverty; in a word, to make every effort in her power to please God. She must, then, be perfectly detached from the world, and all its goods, and perfectly free from the control and tyranny of human ties. But how can a married person find the time, the opportunities, and helps necessary for recollection, and continual application to the things of God ? She that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how to please her husband. The married woman must provide for her family, educate her children, please her husband, his parents, brothers, and relatives, who are sometimes to her a constant source of trouble. Hence the Apostle says, her heart must be divided, and her affections fixed partly on her husband, partly on her children, and partly on God. What time can she have for continual prayer, for frequent Communion, when, with all her efforts, she is not able to attend to the wants of the house? The husband must be attended; if his directions be neglected, or his commands be not immediately executed, he breaks out into complaints and reproaches. The servants disturb the house, at one time by their clamour or their quarrels, at another by their importunate demands. The children, if small, are a perpetual source of annoyance, either by their cries and screams, or by the endless variety of their wants; if grown up, they are an occasion of still greater inquietude, fears and bitterness, by associating with bad companions, by the dangers to which they are exposed, or the infirmities with which they are afflicted. How, in the midst of so many difficulties and embarrassments, is it possible for the married woman to attend to prayer, or to preserve recollection ? And, as to her Communions, they can scarcely be as frequent as once a week. She may indeed have strong desires of sanctification; but to pay great and constant attention to the affairs of her soul will be morally impossible. The very privation of the opportunities of attending to the things of God may be made a source of great merit by patient submission to the divine will, in the unhappy state in which she is placed. All this is indeed possible; but to practise patience and resignation, in the midst of so many troubles and distractions, without the aid of prayer, of spiritual reading, or of the sacraments, will be exceedingly difficult and almost impracticable. But would to God that seculars were exposed to no other evils than the obstacles to their devotions, to constant prayer, and the frequent use of the sacraments. Their greatest misfortune is to be in continual danger of losing the grace of God and their own immortal souls. They must appear like their equals, they must employ servants, and support their rank. They must go abroad to visit their friends, and in these visits they must converse with a variety of characters. At home they must hold constant intercourse with their own families, with their relatives, and with the friends of their husband. Oh ! how great on such occasions is the danger of losing God ! This is not understood by young persons, but it is well known to those who are settled in the world, and who are daily exposed to such dangers.
Oh ! how unhappy and miserable is the life of the generality of married persons ! I have known the circuмstances, the feelings and dispositions, of numberless married persons, from the highest to the lowest classes of society, and how few of them were content ! The bad treatment of husbands, the disaffection of children, the wants of the family, the control of relatives, the pains of childbirth, which are always accompanied with danger of death, the scruples and anxiety of conscience regarding the flight of occasions, and the education of children, plunge poor seculars into endless troubles and agitation, and fill their souls with continual regret for not having been called to a happier and more holy state. God grant that, in the midst of such troubles and agitation, many of them may not lose their immortal souls, and that, along with passing through a hell in this life, they may not be condemned to an eternity of torments in the next. Such is the unhappy condition of many of those who have engaged in the married state. 
- from St Alphonsus Liguori: The true Spouse of Jesus Christ


The above text is not for everyone obviously but he has good points.

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Re: Should I force myself to get married with someone?
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2023, 08:29:25 AM »
I used to have an idea to establish a single catholic women household, somewhat similar to a sorority, whoever moves in need to bind to rules, but it's not a religious order, so people don't need to take vows to become a consecrated virgin or so, while they may choose to do so. They can also move out when they find a partner for life, and become consultant for other girls that want to get married. I really think this will be great.
Yes, that is a good idea, I suggest you start it.