It may not apply, but sometimes you get the impression that certain people are Catholic partly as a kind of rebellion against an anti-Catholic society. Not that they don't truly believe, but part of what excites them about the religion is about being heroes and fighting the forces of evil -- which of course leads to pride since we aren't heroes, just sinners.
It's almost like they have mixed Catholicism with punk-rock defiance, like being Catholic is the last way that we can really stick it to the man ( it always has been the only real way to stick it to the "man," meaning to be against the world, but I digress ). I was like this, so I know what I'm talking about.
Examples of what I mean are those trads who like me at one time are driven by self-righteous anger and a sense of superiority. When they come on the site I can spot them right away. I feel like an old seasoned war veteran with scars all over his face and body who sees these kids leap onto the battlefield chasing fame and glory, and just shakes his head at their youthful imprudence and misguided zeal. Yet I've only been Catholic two years!
I always say, lust and heresy finished off the most Catholics, but pride is the destroyer of the remnant. To turn the ship around, we must recognize that we aren't called because we're anything special, but purely as an act of mercy that we can never understand, and that we haven't earned.
What does this have to do with your post, spouse? Just that I'm talking about a form of exaggerated and therefore disfigured Catholic idealism that could be very volatile in a marriage, if both spouses are like this. Too many today are obsessed with the evil in the world without really understanding the evil in themselves.