Do Married Couples Stay Together in Heaven?

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My life’s dream is to serve God through my marriage and service to Him. I dream and hope I can be with my future wife forever in heaven. I want to know when spouses die, do they separate and lose their love for each other in heaven? or is it made stronger through Christ? There Bible passages that been debated and I want to know what you guys think.
 
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I hope so!! Christ says people are not married / given in marriage in heaven. But if you were already married on earth… he doesn’t seem to comment on that.

The way I think of it, the goal of life is charity… and one of the biggest ways I love God on this earth is by faithfully and devotedly loving my husband the best I can. So I like to think that in heaven my husband and I will love God uniquely together. I don’t know if it’s true… but I plan to find out one day! 🙂 🙂 🙂
 
There is no marriage or giving in marriage, so you won’t be married in heaven. Marriage is “until death do you part.”

But in marriage, your goal as spouses is to get each other to Heaven. So hopefully, you will see your spouse in heaven! ☺️
 
Yes, I was reading about that argument that he was referring to people that are not already married and it made sense to me. Yes, we will all love God above all in a stronger and perfect way, but it wouldn’t make any sense if we could not do that together with the people who we love or lose are feelings for them.
 
I hope that I could still feel a special love for her and be together with her forever. Worshiping God side by side always.
 
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I dream and hope I can be with my future wife forever in heaven.
In Heaven we will get the Beatific vision, which will greatly surpass anything we experience on earth. You will see your wife but it will be a different dynamic, for all the saints see God face to face, like the angels.
 
I hope that I could still feel a special love for her and be together with her forever.
Yeah, that is certainly natural to feel. Of course, there’s so much about life after death that we can’t know until we get there… all the more reason for spouses to help each other in holiness, so they can find out what it will be like when they do get there!
 
Will Marriages be acknowledged in heaven? by Msgr Charles Pope
This is an excellent article and one I hope everyone will take the time to read.

I realize that people who say we’ll all love everybody just the same in Heaven don’t mean to be harsh and they think they are saying something both nice and correct, but I believe the article presents a much better take on it that, as shown, is fully in line with Church teaching.
 
I hope so!! Christ says people are not married / given in marriage in heaven. But if you were already married on earth… he doesn’t seem to comment on that.
Not so sure about that conclusion. After all, Jesus’ statement (which you cite) is in response to a question about people who were married on earth. “Not married in heaven” is Jesus’ response, so… 🤷‍♂️
So I like to think that in heaven my husband and I will love God uniquely together.
In heaven you will love and be loved, perfectly. I’m not sure I’d say “uniquely”, but definitely ‘perfectly’, because that’s in the nature of eternal reward in heaven.
 
I hope so!! Christ says people are not married / given in marriage in heaven. But if you were already married on earth… he doesn’t seem to comment on that.

The way I think of it, the goal of life is charity… and one of the biggest ways I love God on this earth is by faithfully and devotedly loving my husband the best I can. So I like to think that in heaven my husband and I will love God uniquely together. I don’t know if it’s true… but I plan to find out one day!
What about a woman who was widowed three times? Who would she be married to in Heaven. I think the answer is clear and that would be none of them as there is no marriage in Heaven.
 
Sunday’s reading addressed this question. Luke 20 - the Sadducees tried to trip up Jesus with the same question:
Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them,
"The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
 
Msgr Pope said it far better than I ever could - hence why I just posted the link to the article 😃
 
Marriage is a life sentence. Not an eternal one 🤣
Lol! Well that’s an interesting way to state it! I didn’t consider folks who might be in a difficult marriage. In heaven, though, I still wonder if they might have a special union with their spouse & perhaps be able to enjoy the marriage as a friendship/partnership they may not have been able to have with that person in this life?
 
The bond of marriage is broken at death. This is a Church teaching.
 
I do not think the Church has ever taught this issue one way or another as doctrine. I found this article that refers to the ideas expressed by St. John Chrysostom.


My own idea is that relationships are so important, and eternal, because God Himself is a relationship, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I think the great mystery of Marriage, which is Christ and His Church, is not only diminished, but vanishes, if marriage ended in Heaven, though it is perhaps not right to call it marriage. It might well be something much more than marriage. I do not get too hung up on being “like the angels,” as we know even less about the angels than we do Heaven. Jesus did not clarify very much. I like to think of him as a parent who had bought the best Christmas present in the world, was excited about watching the child open it, but wanted to give nothing away, lest he spoil the surprise.

We do know that we won’t be angels, and will have at least one major difference in that we will still have our bodies, as opposed to being pure spiritual beings.

We do not know the answer to the OP question, that I know of. I have not seen anywhere the Church has defined it, and theologians are all over the map on this.
 
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It is difficult for our minds now, we see through a glass darkly as St Paul said, but in heaven our love will be perfected. While we will remember our families on earth, we will all be brother and sister. I will love my late husband the same as I love St John Paul II should I die I die in friendship with God.

What God gives us now, a special bond with our spouse, our children, comes from our hearts and from our bodies in the means of bonding chemicals that intensify those bonds. In heaven, we will not need that bonding chemical because perfect love will bind us all together.

It will not be less than we love now, nor as exclusive as it is now, it will be so much more.
 
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