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Offline Gray2023

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Finding a spouse
« on: July 12, 2026, 08:34:28 AM »
This post was inspired by the thread on broken men.

What do you really need to find a spouse?

They need to be solid in understanding the Catholic Faith or you need to be strong enough in your faith to convert someone.  I have seen both men and women do this successfully.

Attraction, which is more than how they look.  Do they meet you on an intellectual level?  How do they treat other people?  Remember there isn't one right answer.  What is attractive to you, might not be to others.  Do not let peer pressure dictate this.

Safety: Do they have a calming effect on you?  Do they make you feel safe?  I think this is very important for both men and women.  Many marriages fall apart because the spouses lose their feeling of safety.  She sees her husband be too stern with the children (if you say you never see this happen, please don't add to this thread, you don't have enough experience.) or expect perfection. He sees her choose the children over him all the time and he has no soft place to lay his head or warm, comforting place to come home to.

Please add or correct anything i have said.  I have based this off my 28 year marriage.  We had ups.  We had downs.  If you want more context DM me.

Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: Finding a spouse
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2026, 08:59:11 AM »
Read this week sermon by St Alphonsus. 7th Sunday after Pentacost.


Re: Finding a spouse
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2026, 12:05:53 PM »
Many marriages fall apart because the spouses lose their feeling of safety. 


This is the most ridiculously modern thing for a trad woman to say.

"safety" is a feminist buzzword.

Offline Gray2023

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Re: Finding a spouse
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2026, 12:29:50 PM »

This is the most ridiculously modern thing for a trad woman to say.

"safety" is a feminist buzzword.
Well I am not using it that way.  Stop making such bad assumptions. 

We are not puritans, who need everything to be dismal all the time.  I am getting tired of the impression that some of you have that the more everyone suffers, the better it is for everyone.

Do you know what it feels like to be scared?  Do you know how anger terrifies little children?  Do you know how abandonment feels?  Do you know how it feels to never hear a kind word?  These things make people feel unsafe and unprotected.  Do you know how many times I see married couples speak poorly to each other?  Men do it action.  Women do it with words.  Do you know how many children of these families, don't want to get married?  How many think "How can there be a God, if this is love?"  How many miserable people have you met?  

The home needs to be safe haven, especially with all the secular evil around.

Tom, I would appreciate you not tainting a conversation with your emotional reaction.  I do find that sometimes you have good things to say.  If you needed clarity on what I meant, you should just ask.

Re: Finding a spouse
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2026, 01:33:36 PM »
Well I am not using it that way.  Stop making such bad assumptions. 



Be more careful with your words in future then.