Important: Is Our Marriage Valid?

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My wife and I married almost nine years ago, I was Catholic and she Converted a year after the wedding. We were married in the Catholic church by our current Priest. We have both just started reading a book by Christopher West called The Good News About Sex And Marriage. We came to the part about what makes a marriage valid? So here is the situation. My wife and I were both in a state of mortal sin when we married and I withheld the sin of being impure with myself from her ( which she knows about and I am still struggling with). We have both been to confession and confessed our mortal sins past and present, which at the time of our wedding we did not know we had to do that. We are both commited to and love each other the way Christ wants us to - until death! I guess I didn’t know my religion as well as I should have but I have started a few years ago taking my faith very seriously. We wish we would have known then what we know now! Has anybody else been in this situation before? We want to know if our marriage is valid? Thank you very much!
 
If you were married in the Catholic Church your marriage is valid. If your wife was not Catholic at the time of your marriage I preassume that you got all of the required dispensations or else the priest would not have wittnessed the marriage.

Being in a state of mortal sin is important but does not affect the validity of a marriage per se. Once you got into a state of grace you would receive the sacramental graces that accompany the Sacrament. I preassume that your wife was already baptized at the time of your marriage.
 
…i suggest to visit your priest to relieve your conscience…

i personally think you guys are just fine… but it sounds like you harbor doubt… call your priest… put it to rest…

Peace:thumbsup:
 
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If you were married in the Catholic Church your marriage is valid. If your wife was not Catholic at the time of your marriage I preassume that you got all of the required dispensations or else the priest would not have wittnessed the marriage.

Being in a state of mortal sin is important but does not affect the validity of a marriage per se. Once you got into a state of grace you would receive the sacramental graces that accompany the Sacrament. I preassume that your wife was already baptized at the time of your marriage.
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Yes my wife was baptized at the time of our marriage. Thank you for your response!
 
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…i suggest to visit your priest to relieve your conscience…

i personally think you guys are just fine… but it sounds like you harbor doubt… call your priest… put it to rest…

Peace:thumbsup:
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Thanks for the advice!!
 
I’m going to throw this one back out here. I have and did have back then at the time of our marriage a masturbation addiction, I heard if we were to ever get divorced that (my addiction) could be grounds for an anulment, so if my understanding is correct an anulment means we were never married (in the eyes of the Church). So if that’s true and were not “married” are we commiting adultry? I can’t talk to my priest about any of this he’s too close to my family.
 
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