Is wanting to be a husband a worthy vocation?

[llenadegracia]

IYou can always ask on this forum in a new thread that very question to the ladies, both married and single, how they feel about it. They won’t reply to this question under a subject regarding husbands.

I’ll go ahead and answer anyway.

I am an unmarried young woman.

I would love to stay at home and provide for my husband even if we did not have kids at the time. It really is dependent on numerous factors though. If one of us had student loan debt then it might make more sense for me to work while we did not have kids in order to pay the debt off and start saving money to be able to confidently provide for a family. Also, I could see myself working part time and then doing house duties the other part of the working day. I think I share the same thought process as PennyinCanada. I’d rather have all the house work done during the so then in the evening my husband and I could relax and not be super busy vacuuming or doing laundry. There’s a few bakeries nearby that have a morning crew come in and decorate and do a lot of the baking during the early morning. I could definitely see myself working part time a few hours each morning during the week at a bakery. I love baking and it would be a good way to bring in some extra money/get out of the house in a job I love but still be able to take care of house duties.

 

[oldfashcathgirl]

Is this where I say I have always wanted to be a wife?? LOL jk

but seriously every man who should desire to serve their domestic family or the Church in a fatherly/husband way! How great it is to have that as a goal! Praise God!

 

[oldfashcathgirl]

Is this where I say I have always wanted to be a wife?? LOL

Seriously though, having that desire is great for whatever your vocation is. To have the desire to be husband/father is great for your domestic church or to the universal Church. Praise God!

 

[CarmenCatherine]

I’ve found great comfort in reading all this! It’s encouraging- wow. if only there were more men like you and anywhere near me too.
I think, for the most part, with things that are for life, it’s whether or not it is the best way for you to be- the best way for you to LOVE the best way for you to serve. Sometimes you can love someone with all your heart, but being married to them isn’t necessarily the best way to love them. The love that’s offered to the very stars- that’s loving enough to let go- that’s when it stops feeling sad- because it’s about sacrifice. Loving most, loving sincere, and always with God. I hope that makes sense, because it could help. Back in the day where ‘charity’ was one word with love in translation… the ‘in love’ feeling accounts for at most a 15% of what love actually is, because love is in everything we say and we do, or it isn’t truth. For me, i understand what you mean, about being there for someone and making them happy. I’d so love that too. But in all these things, there is Sacrifice… marriage also is a sacrifice. THat in love feeling is the same feeling of God too. As if to be able to glimpse eternity.
I certainly wouldn’t worry about being able to make someone happy. You’re definately able.
None the less, i pray that we all have our God given destiny’s unfold. He’s already written us. I think just take each day as it comes. As is presently is best presently.
There is an old saying: ‘They first know heaven through loving each other’. I think that’s sweet.

God bless you all. Thankyou for being you- all of you, so readily, easily loveable