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Author Topic: Newly Baptised and Struggling  (Read 14431 times)

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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Reply #110 on: April 30, 2024, 05:11:50 PM »
Whether or not there are children involved doesn’t have anything to do with annulment.

I was going to respond to the same comment when I saw this.  You absolutely can have children in an adulterous relationship, or while fornicating, or in many scenarios outside of marriage, but the generation of children does not somehow create a marriage where there isn't one.

I think what she may have in mind is where a couple has no other legitimate reason not be considered "married" but then later come up with some nonsense about "psychological immaturity" at the time of marriage.  I know of one case where not only were both the couple Catholics, but they were dedicated/involved NO Catholics in any case, with both of them volunteering to help the church and the wife a secretary at the rectory.  They were married for 25 years and had 4-5 children, and then suddenly decided their marriage was null because of some sudden recall of memory that they were too immature at the time they married, which just so happened to coincide with the wife suddenly having coming across someone she developed a romantic interest in.  Then she suddenly remembered that she was immature at the time of their wedding (not having recalled this or done anything about it for 25 years) and somehow felt "pressured" into marrying.

Offline Gray2023

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Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Reply #111 on: April 30, 2024, 05:33:08 PM »
I was going to respond to the same comment when I saw this.  You absolutely can have children in an adulterous relationship, or while fornicating, or in many scenarios outside of marriage, but the generation of children does not somehow create a marriage where there isn't one.

I think what she may have in mind is where a couple has no other legitimate reason not be considered "married" but then later come up with some nonsense about "psychological immaturity" at the time of marriage.  I know of one case where not only were both the couple Catholics, but they were dedicated/involved NO Catholics in any case, with both of them volunteering to help the church and the wife a secretary at the rectory.  They were married for 25 years and had 4-5 children, and then suddenly decided their marriage was null because of some sudden recall of memory that they were too immature at the time they married, which just so happened to coincide with the wife suddenly having coming across someone she developed a romantic interest in.  Then she suddenly remembered that she was immature at the time of their wedding (not having recalled this or done anything about it for 25 years) and somehow felt "pressured" into marrying.
How sad and selfish people can be.....