My husband won’t go to our sons wedding. I think this is the last straw for me

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I wouldn’t care if he was transgender. If he wanted me to call him she, I would do so. Why? Because I’m a true Catholic who knows that it’s right to love everybody even if I don’t agree with their life choices
I asked my wife to refer to my abs as a washboard, my laundry folding habits as flawless, and my morning breath as the smell of day lilies. She declined for some reason.

Yet, I know she still loves me. Wanna know why I know? Because she wants me to get to Heaven desperately, and isn’t afraid to ruffle familial feathers when I may be veering off that path.
 
So explain how a gay person should be allowed to love, that they can’t love a child.
They can love a child, but it needs a father and a mother so it isn’t appropriate from the Catholic point of view to adopt.
 
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I think you might be confusing love and sex
When did I say anything about sex? Not once did I mention sex… so how am I confused when all I talked about is loving another person?
… but it needs a father and a mother so it isn’t appropriate from the Catholic point of view to adopt.
Catholic believe a single parent can not raise a child?
Somehow, people have no problem intervening if their child is destroying themselves with drugs or alcohol,
Are you seriously comparing how a gay person loves to how a drug attidict or alcoholic abuses themselves?
 
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So you go to the wedding because that’s what you want, and your husband stays home. I would not be fighting about this issue. You are both free to make your own choices.

Your son is old enough to make his own choices.

Time to sit down together with your husband and ask forgiveness from each other. Pray before the Divine Mercy Image, together, and ask that God come and heal your relationship.
 
Not once did I mention sex… so how am I confused when all I talked about is loving another person?

… but it needs a father and a
Perhaps, I am confused. I can’t figure out what would prevent anyone from loving another person. Since we are all capable of loving any other human being- indeed all human beings, (even those who do not happen to love us) I assumed you must be talking about something else as being a problem.
My apologies.
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Perhaps, I am confused. I can’t figure out what would prevent anyone from loving another person.
That was my question. How do you explain yo your child I love you but not how you love, and still have your child understand you really love them.
Since we are all capable of loving any other human being- indeed all human beings, (even those who do not happen to love us)
Some people on this thread told OP, she should also discourage her son from adopting… so if a gay person is capable of love, like everyone else, why should they not be able to love an unwanted child?
 
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We tell out children that their behaivior (the “how” part is not o.k. all the time-that’s an important part of parental responsibility. How do we do it? We say: you shouldn’t do that.
This question has been answered numerous times in this thread-you may have missed them.
No one is saying that a person with same sex attraction should not be able to love.
What is being said is that children need a mother and father.
If you scroll back in the thread, you’ll find fairly detailed responses.
 
This question has been answered numerous times in this thread-you may have missed them.
I do admit I only read maybe the first 20 posts, so I don’t know if it has or hasn’t… I’m sorry, if it has,

Someone explained why a person’s “behavior” defines their ability to love… or how a single parent is incapable of caring or loving a child.

you answered my question, so I just continued from there with more… and the parts I read didn’t really answer the original question I had.
 
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How do you explain yo your child I love you but not how you love ,
What if your child ran off with somebody else’s spouse (but he really really really loved her!)?
Would you be okay with “how” he loves?
 
I’m sorry you’re going through this.

It is the natural instinct of a mom to always love and support her child. Your son is always going to be your son regardless of whether he’s gay or not. So I totally understand where you are coming from. It should be your choice what you yourself do and if you need advice it should come from your priest, not from your MIL or from strangers on the Internet here.

At the same time, it’s understandable that a parent who strongly disapproves of his child’s lifestyle and future spouse might not want to go to the wedding or support it. You can’t make your husband go and if he doesn’t want to then you need to respect his choice just like he needs to respect yours.

I would add that many Catholics feel strongly that a Catholic shouldn’t go to a gay wedding or support it by sending a gift, etc. And many other Catholics feel strongly that if the wedding involves someone in your immediate family, then you can and should go. So there’s no one answer on this.

I hope you and your husband are able to respect each others’ feelings on this and accept it if you have a difference of opinion. I don’t see why one issue of disagreement should mean the end of a marriage unless there’s additional stuff going on. I would suggest counseling. God bless.
 
That’s…disturbing…and misrepresenting someone else might even be considered sinful…
 
Probably the same way a parent would if their child abused heroine.
 
God doesn’t change. He is the same - yesterday - today - forever. His Church - His Body will follow Him in this.
 
I asked and I didn’t even break any specific rule. They just thought editing it would make me “a better witness to another CAF member.”
 
I asked and I didn’t even break any specific rule. They just thought editing it would make me “a better witness to another CAF member.”
This is truly pathetic. Someone flags a post and even though no rule is violated a moderator makes changes to smooth it over. I have had posts deleted and changed in the past with no rule violations. Just to appease the mob, and probably a mob of 1.
 
I am 100% okay with a post of mine being removed for violating a rule but please at least have the courtesy to tell me which rule. How can my behviour change without knowing what I did wrong. If there is no rule violation then do not remove it for a rule violation to appease someone. I am done complaining, it won’t last long here anyway. It is just so wrong on a catholic forum to not be treated in a respectful way. Appeasing the mob should not be the norm here.
 
God doesn’t change. He is the same - yesterday - today - forever. His Church - His Body will follow Him in this.
God never changes, but the Catholic church does… why do some Catholics like some Popes more then other, like Vatican I but not Vatican II… because of changes… the CCC also.says the heads of the church can make changes to some Sacred Ttlraditions… and it wasn’t that long ago, just by being gay you were a sinner, but now with understanding it’s not a sin to be gay.

You are right God never changes, but man does.
What if your child ran off with somebody else’s spouse (but he really really really loved her!)?
Would you be okay with “how” he loves?
I love you but not that fact that you’re an adulterer… you know that’s probably the best analogy I’ve ever said… this at least is talking about love.

So I would tell my child I love you but I cant accept the fact that you are an adulterer, so I also wouldn’t be able to accept you two getting married, adopting children, in fact you shouldn’t even have children because you both are adulterer. I know you two love each other but it’s wrong, you should have stayed away from each other.

Well that better then comparing my child to a drug addict, who is in capable of love.
 
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I asked and I didn’t even break any specific rule. They just thought editing it would make me “a better witness to another CAF member.”
I suggest you look into the appeals process. I know under the old site there was a section detailing how to do this (I can’t find it now), and one of the categories was to put in the email subject “Moderator abuse”.
 
Given the current state of this place, it’s not worth the trouble. An edited comment is better than a suspension. However, I prefer deletion.
 
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