Do we lose our loved ones in heaven?

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So when we die and go to heaven if we are so lucky do we lose our husbands or wives? What about family? I’m having a really hard time with this as I love my wife so dearly!
 
Hopefully, I can wander away from the crowd and have a few centuries alone 😒🚬
 
It’s a frightening concept to me I struggle with two sides of a coin one not existing forever and second existing forever because what would you do? Wouldn’t it get boring? Or is it like constant prayer but then why get our bodies back?
 
Most of the time in Heaven we will be contemplating God’s awesomeness. The way I see it is peering into God is like a never-ending cycle of reading Aquinas and coming to an understanding of what Aquinas was saying. And then replicating that feeling over and over again. You are confused, a light dawns, you comprehend, and you feel awesome for understanding what Aquinas was saying because he was a genius.

Someone said that we will never be able to fully comprehend God. But we will have all eternity to try.
 
Thanks for brightening my day as always I hope you know it’s helped! I’ve had a lot of despair and your lighthearted humor and thought out answers have given me even a minutes relief. Thank you.
 
It doesn’t sound so horrible that way! I just want to make sure I never forget how much my wife sacrificed for me and fought for me and my family whom I love so much!
 
That’s very inspiring and I really appreciate all your help In a few of my questions!!!
 
I think a good way to think of loving your wife and kids in Heaven is that you will be able to love them more fully. You will peer into God and see them through God’s eyes. That shears away all the crust we have from our human frailty. Sexuality, when used right, is a small glimpse of that love in a very limited way. Giving one’s self fully to the other person and willing to do anything for them.
 
Much of what is written here is speculation.

The only thing we know for sure is that marriage as such does not exist in heaven, but that we “will be like the angels”. That does not mean that we will relate to each other in the same way. Take, for example, the Blessed Mother Mary. Catholic teaching holds that she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven, unlike other saints and the rest of humanity. Finally, the Book of Revelation contains references to the martyrs and I think also virgins.

Or the teaching of the Council of Florence, which holds that the elect will enjoy the beatific vision, each in different degrees (Session 6 - 6 July 1439).

Now, what does this have to do with our relations with each other? On the surface, nothing, but since Catholic teaching holds that we obtain different rewards, there is hope that we will recognize our relations differently than the rest of humanity and remember those first who helped us obtain the crown of glory. (But this last part is one speculation among others.)

I hope so.

I pray so as well, asking this Lent that if I pass from this world before my beloved, then I will be one of those who holds her hand and leads her into paradise.
 
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Heaven is going to be so freaking awesome I can’t wait!! When the world is remade, I’m going hiking across Scotland first thing. Or maybe flying, without a plane or wings you know, and there will be the best wine and fruit ever and I will definitely enjoy a nice cigar or two. Or maybe a pipe.

At any rate, heaven will be amazing in every which way, beyond all our wildest dreams. I know this for sure. God is extravagant in his love for us… And heaven will show it. 😇😇😇
 
Oh and no, we don’t lose our loved ones or families in heaven. Our relationships will be perfected! 💝
 
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Sure thing :roll_eyes:
 
The proposed question betrays a love of your wife above God. It seems that you would be more happy in Heaven if you could only still be married to your wife. Am I wrong?

Christ said explicitly in Matthew 22:30 “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”

You will not be married to your wife in Heaven. You are married to her now for the sole purpose of giving glory to God and helping your wife get to Heaven. Once in Heaven (God willing), you will still know and love your wife. But you will love her perfectly, that is you will love her for God’s sake and because she is like God. She will be perfected in the love of God.

You must foster a holy detachment from all created things --including your wife and family. Even yourself. Attach yourself entirely to God and you will be fine.
 
Maybe the cigars will smell heavenly there and not like cigars on earth.
Which usually smell…not so good. 😝
 
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