Catholic Samurai said:Hormones are NOT a factor in determining ones vocation!!!
Matthew 19:12
For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.
By saying that not everyone would be able to accept a life of celibacy ( those "who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven" ) and that only certain people would be able to "take it," Christ was saying that there are those who have a vocation to marriage. They literally cannot "take" celibacy.
The hormones business was just a little offhand joke. There are other reasons why some are not called to celibacy. I wrote to spouse in another thread about how she seems to have too much time to think about herself and that she comes across as slightly neurotic. My impression of her is that she would benefit enormously from taking care of children and a husband -- that it would stabilize her sometimes violent mood swings and tendencies to negative brooding.
I could be wrong, but I am not God. I do what I can.
Catholic Samurai said:St.Augustine, St.Ignatius Loyola, St.Benedict, St.Francis Assisi, St.Teresa, and all the other saints HAD HORMONES and still served God in the religious state of life in spite of it.
Yeah, and I am like them in the matter of hormones and in eunuch-ness if not in the matter of saintliness. I am also a lot like spouse ( or my faulty and sketchy Internet impression of spouse ) in that I'm self-absorbed and moody but I know I am not meant for marriage. It would not make me blossom but it would make me feel distracted and hemmed-in. I need to be at the disposal of God at all times, even though I have chosen not to be a priest until the mess in the Church is cleaned up.
So we all have hormones in common. At least that has been established. Spouse, you are asking how you will know God's will... In your case, it may be so hard to find a husband that that the sheer impossibility of it will prove you were meant to be celibate. Otherwise, if the miracle happens, then all questions are resolved. In short, if God wants you to be married He will send you a husband.