What is the appropriate response when a spouse remarries?
1 Is it mandatory to keep in contact with the spouse?
2 Are you obligated to send cards and gifts to the spouse for special ocassions?
3 Do you talk to their "concubine" or whatever?
4 How do you explain to the children that their parent is an adulterer?
5 Should you continue to display your wedding photos in the home?
6 Does the wayward spouse retain marital rights (sɛҳuąƖ relations, property, right to be obeyed or loved)? Meaning once a year they pretend they miss you and want to hook up for a break from their new flame.
7 Is it OK to move on and not spend the rest of your life sad and depressed as long as you remain single and celibate?
8 Can you stop wearing your wedding ring?
9 Can you buy a new house without the spouse permission?
10 Can you utilize every legal resource possible to make their life as financially uncomfortable as possible so that your spouse and their new paramour aren't enjoying the fruits of your labors?
Miseremini answered well. I would just add a few things:
1 Only if you have children - This is correct. As long as he knows where to find you, if he wanted to repent and reconcile.
2 No. This is the correct answer.
3 Only when necessary (when she answers the phone and you're calling to speak to him about the children)
4 Ask a priest
5 You don't have to publicly display your wedding photos even if your marriage is doing great -- so no, you don't have to display them at all, if that adds pain to your life.
6 NO NO NO He's an adulterer You might catch something If you should ever reconcile in the future, at least 6 months celebacy till all tests come back negative. This is good advice -- Also, when a spouse commits adultery you don't have to "take him back" at all, though you would have to live celibate (single) the rest of your life (or until he dies). If you've already "taken him back" at least once after the adultery, speak to a priest. But, strictly speaking, he loses his marital rights once he commits adultery. You and he are still married to each other for life, though. But you have to "take him back" and once you do, I don't think you can un-do it, unless he commits adultery again. Speak to a priest.
7 Yes. There is no law saying you must be depressed. You do have to be single, that's all.
8 Why? Your're still married. Show your children what's right.
9 According to man's law you are divorced. Keep your finances away from him.
10 YES YES YES !