I disagreed with an earlier post, read Catechism #2352 VERY carefully, only God can judge his frame of mind, if your husband REALLY is addicted, he may only be commiting a venile sin. Now before everyone jumps down my throat let me clarify what I just said, first a venile sin is also very bad, a sin is still a sin an hurts us, we should never comit even a venile sin, that is how serious they are, however, we won’t go to hell for commiting a venile sin. Now this is also important, your husband as well as anyone else reading this, NEVER, EVER assume you are addicted, DO NOT toy with a sin as serious as this, ONLY GOD can judge. I am merely suggesting he MAY NOT BE COMMITING SERIOUS SIN, athough he also may be.
Tell him to get back up every time he falls, even if it be 10 times a day, get up and go on, NEVER give up, that’s what satan wants, this may be his cross, what if he gives up and had he hung on till tomorrow he would’ve achieved salvation. DON’T QUIT!
Mass & Eucharist & Confession.
Rosary, Rosary, Rosary
Keep busy.
Read the Bible daily, it’s full of passages that may help, Tobias, Job, St. Joseph, and of course Jesus and so on.
Ask the intercession of Saints like Mary, Joseph, Benedict, Michael, Mary Magdalane, Augustine, Philomena, Maria Goretti, Aloysius Gonzaga, Dymphna and even Pope John Paul II, even though he is not yet cannonized.
I know you love him, I can sense that in your posts, make sure he always knows that, you are his wife, his other part…and the two shall become ONE flesh, you love him and he loves you, keep God in the center of your marriage, make him more part of it, a marriage is 3, not 2, It is you and your husband and God, most people forget God, he’s in it too, ask his help, and if your not already doing it, pray together.
Good luck to the both of you, God bless you.
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