Nope. In fairness, I will say that my husband did not like to attend Protestant services even before he met me. I asked him why he didn’t go to his own church when we met, and he said he didn’t like sermons. His mother also didn’t go to church much. His father went from time to time, more as a social activity than out of any great religious fervor. Like I said, if he or his family had been really fervent and had been pushing me to go to Presbyterian church with them, this marriage would not have happened and we probably would have broken up. I just was not going to do that. Ever.
I generally do not make him come to the Catholic church with me unless it is a special occasion or we need to go together because we are going someplace else afterwards, such as to lunch. I also spend a lot of time on the road so I am attending by myself frequently as a matter of necessity. We did not have kids; if we had had kids, I probably would have pushed the idea of “Daddy” attending Mass a little harder than I did. When he comes to Mass, he is fine with it and well behaved, though I bicker with him a bit over genuflecting and that sort of thing.
