There is nothing with wrong with the FSSP Masses. They are still valid and there are many orthodox, conservative priests there.

OP, you are not alone.

I cannot say for sure whether or not the Novus Ordo priests are true priests and Novus Ordo bishops are true bishops. I have seen the arguments on both sides and I do not know who is right. Many people in my chapel feel this way also and wouldn't go to the Mass of a Novus Ordo priest. That is one problem with the FSSP, which is why I would go to an Eastern rite Mass before an FSSP Mass. The other problem I have is that I consider them to be compromised because of their relationship with Rome.

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 Church supplies jurisdiction for the needs of the Faithful, including the sacraments of confession and matrimony

Well my friend who went from SSPX to FSSP told me they would not recognize her marriage as valid. Those were very bad news for her. I'm not sure what she had to do but still, it is a process.

First of all, she did not do something praiseworthy. The FSSP might be good as one first discovers Tradition, but you can't live on breast milk forever. At some point, you need to grow up and go 100% Traditional. Someone stepping DOWN to the FSSP is compromising and giving up in some way. It's just like taking the difficulty setting down in a game -- what would you think of such a player? Only  the Faith isn't a game.

Well, the FSSP is one with the Novus Ordo -- you shouldn't be surprised. The Novus Ordo rejects a lot of good things, including the Mass of All Ages, the traditional Rosary, devotion to the Sacred Heart, Fasting and Abstinence, celebrating Feast Days on the weekday they fall on, First Fridays, and the list goes on.

The fact they don't recognize my marriage -- I should consider myself in good company.

If I went to join some heretical cult, I would also expect that its followers would look askance at my marriage, since it wasn't blessed by whatever Great Leader rules that particular cult.

God recognizes it, and that's all that matters to me.

I wonder how an FSSP priest would react if you went to him in confession and confessed going to a Novus Ordo Mass as a sin.

All good responses.  
Where I'm at the SSPX chapel is closer than the FSSP parish, but the SSPX priest is a little less hardline.  Isn't that odd?  He sticks to the Gospel for sermons and he will discuss the crisis of SSPX and Rome if you bring it up privately, but it's never in the sermon.
The FSSP pastor hammers on the Pope just about every Sunday. He's very black and white about doctrine. He told me he despises ambiguity and he has to keep the flock from succuмbing to modernist creep.  So now we go there most of the time.
I did notice more modernism at the FSSP parish in San Diego, but not in the clergy, and not at their other locations that I've visited.  It dawned on me a short time ago that if I was blindfolded and brought to an FSSP Mass or devotion and told it was SSPX, I wouldn't know the difference.
I expected a lot of defense of Rome stuff from them, but they are not into papalotry, just the opposite.  So I admit that I had several preconceived notions about them and was disabused of it pretty quickly.      

Someone brought up going from SSPX to FSSP.  They say one must make a general confession due to doubtful authority of independent traditional priests and if married by SSPX it's "healed at the root" (I forget the latin) and blessed, something like that.  Which goes to jurisdiction which seems to be a matter of interpretation after a year of really intense research.  Cathinfo helped a lot and pointed me to other sources in my investigations, so thanks for that.
Is it correct that epikeia does not seem to apply any longer for the SSPX since they seek regularization from Rome?  And now all the others just seem schismatic in one way or another.  Epikeia used to be my justification.

One thing for sure, it should not be this complicated for a baptized Catholic to know the right thing to do and save his soul.  One false move and down the elevator shaft! :heretic:

One thing for sure, it should not be this complicated for a baptized Catholic to know the right thing to do and save his soul.  One false move and down the elevator shaft! :heretic:

That's evidence for why you're wrong.

One false move and you're NOT down the elevator shaft (into Hell). God is good. He wouldn't do that to anyone.

Epikeia is the legal principle where the true intent of the lawgiver can be assumed, if he were alive today.

You suggest that just because the SSPX has compromised, we no longer have any options? Give me a break. That's what the Resistance is for. If the SSPX had epikeia before, wouldn't the Resistance have it now?

And yes, there is one place to beware of because of schismatic/cult tendencies -- the Pfeiffer branch of the Resistance. But he is NOT the whole Resistance, not even if you restrict the discussion to the United States.