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So, Gooch has a major moral dilemma in his family because he married a girl who is nonchalant and sees herself as the ultimate creator by using birth control.  That's where she is morally and it's a state of mortal sin.  

Gooch is stuck with this.  Gooch has screwed the pooch!  In a manner of speaking.    

So, what's Gooch to do now?  

I say follow the advice I gave earlier.  Sanctify himself with prayer, sacrifice, assisting at the Traditional Catholic Mass ONLY and bring his children with him.  Sanctify himself and then sanctify the children.  

It's a process and it may take months.  

Gooch will have to pray the Rosary daily with intentions for his wife and her conversion and for the children that they may embrace fully the Traditional Catholic faith.  

Gooch will need to refrain from all immoral practices, giving up all porn, lust, and even limit his intake of TV.  

Gooch will need to go to a Traditional Catholic priest for a General Confession.  This will take much prayer and meditation on Gooch's part and then he will have to have the courage to go into the confessional and spill the beans entirely.

Gooch will need to be patient with his wife but he will also have to spell it out for her that what she is doing is repulsive from a secular point of view but absolute death of the soul in the supernatural realm.  He will have to revisit this conversation several times.  If his wife divorces him over this, then she probably possesses a rancid soul.  

Gooch should also start to purchase plaster statues of Catholic saints, in particular Our Lady, have them blessed by a priest and then display them in prominent spots in the home.  Consecrate the home to the Sacred Heart.  

There should be a crucifix in every room (except the bathroom).  

Gooch has to take a stand and make a change.  Change is good if it's in the direction of embracing the Traditional Catholic faith.  

When a guy marries a girl who is openly using birth control, he probably has a lot of problems in addition to the wife.  So Gooch will have to single out these problems and conquer them one after the other.  

It's even possible that Gooch, by asking for advice on this forum, may not even be the intended beneficiary of this advice.  The blessings may be reserved for one of his children or one of his grandchildren.  

The blessing may even be for the child his wife gives birth to after she gets rid of that absolutely soul-killing and rancid practice of birth control.  

I wish Gooch all the luck in the world and may God bless him.

Quote from: Telesphorus

"He was controlling, so I had to leave him" - how many so-called trads will accept that excuse at face value from women - how many Catholic men see themselves blamed for their wives abandoning the religion and abandoning their responsibilities?

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this justification of women's horrible behavior and their knowledge that interlopers will support them, even at their own church, for breaking up their families, is one of the major reasons for the high divorce rate, particularly for religious men.

Being a pious man means getting a kick in the teeth from the liberals in the congregation when the worst happens.

Quote from: Zeitun

Please see the big picture and know that the devil's goal here is to split you up.  Your priority must be your soul and the soul of your wife.  Even if she has the IUD removed she may still divorce you because of the real issue--control.  While you are the head of the family, in your heavy-handedness, you haven't loved her as Christ loves the Church.  You rule her with an iron rod instead of with tender mercy.  
 

It's his fault for his heavy-handedness and not loving her.