St. Monica pray for us! Praying for our husbands....

[LATD]

LATD:
NFP is what God intends for married couples to be open to life. It is also mutual respect and communication between husband and wife that is needed to understand when a COUPLE is fertile or not. It is a beautiful plan. I’ve used NFP and have also conceived 4 children (4, 3, and 20 months twins). In fact the twins were conceived the exact time I was diagnosed w/ cancer. Before I knew I was pregnant, I stated that I wanted more children, but after the diagnosis I changed my mind. I truely believe that God has a plan for everyone. You have to have faith. Remember, your marriage is a vocation. God is creating life via you and your husband for his Eternal Kingdom. God Bless You.

 

[Convert_in_99]

**I haven’t posted here in a while, but…

Please help me continue praying for my husband. Like I said before, he is a completely wonderful man as he is. I wouldn’t change a thing about him…except that he become Catholic. Right now he’s protestant.

I only want him to be able to share in all the same graces and blessings I do in receiving communion and confession.

Please pray for him and I will keep all of your husband’s in prayer too!

Thanks!
**

 

[Cagrl]

I haven’t posted here in a while, but…

Please help me continue praying for my husband. Like I said before, he is a completely wonderful man as he is. I wouldn’t change a thing about him…except that he become Catholic. Right now he’s protestant.

I only want him to be able to share in all the same graces and blessings I do in receiving communion and confession.

Please pray for him and I will keep all of your husband’s in prayer too!

Thanks!

Convert99, we are in the same boat. I also have posted here in the past. My husband is a wonderful, kind, loving and considerate man. He is cradle Catholic but is lukewarm toward the faith. He attends Mass every Sunday, receives communion, goes to confession regularly and he will pray with us before meals… but besides that, he doesn’t partake in anything else. There are a lot of things he doesn’t believe/practice with regards to things our faith has to offer. I just wish that he could see how rich with graces and blessings our Catholic faith is when you really try to practice it to the fullest.

I will be praying to St. Monica for your husband.

Maybe we should do a Novena for them.

 

[Convert_in_99]

Convert99, we are in the same boat. I also have posted here in the past. My husband is a wonderful, kind, loving and considerate man. He is cradle Catholic but is lukewarm toward the faith. He attends Mass every Sunday, receives communion, goes to confession regularly and he will pray with us before meals… but besides that, he doesn’t partake in anything else. There are a lot of things he doesn’t believe/practice with regards to things our faith has to offer. I just wish that he could see how rich with graces and blessings our Catholic faith is when you really try to practice it to the fullest.

I will be praying to St. Monica for your husband.

Maybe we should do a Novena for them.

**Oh I wish I were like you! But I am actually more like your husband. Right now, I am kind of just the “bare minimum” catholic wise. It’s not because I don’t like my faith, I love it! It’s just so hard with the depression and all to do much more than just sunday mass and monthly confession. Grace before meals, and bedtime prayers.

I’ll say a quick prayer here and there for someone I see/meet or someone in need. But I really don’t have anything regular or devotional. Maybe I too am lukewarm.

But, my husband isn’t even catholic. I married him knowing this would be a mixed marriage. But, I was okay with it as I was a convert myself. I see the good from both sides, though I know we have far more and better. I just really wish my husband would want to be catholic too, so he could have Jesus in communion and all. Also, I wish it for our future children. They will be raised catholic, but allowed to attend church and sunday school (no communion of course) with their father. That’s what we agreed too. I so wish, though, that they could just attend the catholic church, and him too!
**

 

[mommyof4]

**Oh I wish I were like you! But I am actually more like your husband. Right now, I am kind of just the “bare minimum” catholic wise. It’s not because I don’t like my faith, I love it! It’s just so hard with the depression and all to do much more than just sunday mass and monthly confession. Grace before meals, and bedtime prayers.

I’ll say a quick prayer here and there for someone I see/meet or someone in need. But I really don’t have anything regular or devotional. Maybe I too am lukewarm.

But, my husband isn’t even catholic. I married him knowing this would be a mixed marriage. But, I was okay with it as I was a convert myself. I see the good from both sides, though I know we have far more and better. I just really wish my husband would want to be catholic too, so he could have Jesus in communion and all. Also, I wish it for our future children. They will be raised catholic, but allowed to attend church and sunday school (no communion of course) with their father. That’s what we agreed too. I so wish, though, that they could just attend the catholic church, and him too!
**

Don’t be too hard on yourself, convert. You’ve got a lot of health issues that sap a lot of your energy.

 

[Cagrl]

Conver99, I agree with Mommyof4.

And now, I am no saint, Convert99, so don’t put me on a pedal stool. I have my weaknesses, trust me! It’s all a journey we must walk.

I will be praying for you to St. Dymphna for the depression and to St. Rita and St. Monica.

Blessings.

 

[mom4truth]

Please, please pray for the conversion of my husband. He is lost in the dark but doesn’t think he is. Truly, he is though. Thank you so much. My family needs a miracle for this one!

 

[mommyof4]

Please, please pray for the conversion of my husband. He is lost in the dark but doesn’t think he is. Truly, he is though. Thank you so much. My family needs a miracle for this one!

Praying for you.

 

[mom4truth]

Thank you so much, Mary. It’s so nice to know someone “out there” is praying for me! God bless you and I will pray for you too!
Much love,

 

[smith556]

My husband quit his job to bartend, stay out all night, drink too much, sleep with other women, etc… All day he sits at the computer telling me he’s looking for a job, but he’s looking at porn, and talking to his gf jen, who he doesn’t think I know about. He doesn’t support us financially, doesn’t take care of the house, yard, or himself. He’s totally dysfunctional. He advertises himself on a group sex website that he doesn’t think I know about.

I moved out, hoping that if he were forced to at least support himself, he would “come to.” I feel pressured to have sex with him out of jealousy of his other women and to keep him from looking at them/talking to them even more.

We have been married 11 years. He became negligent within weeks. If I’d had sex with him or lived with him before marriage, rather than being “good”, I would have known that his “open to life” vows were nothing more than lip service…he once asked me to have an abortion. I’m not even sure our marriage is valid in the eyes of the church.

In my more angry years, I cheated on him too, out of vengence, but learned that wasn’t the way. I broke my cycle, yet his repeats. I feel guilty that i’m not open to God working if I don’t stand by him, forgive him, and meet his physical needs…yet I cry after we have sex because I feel so used. He doesn’t have to have any responsibility or change anything, and he gets what he wants.

Why won’t God answer me? Why has he abandonned me? I just want to know if I should stay or go. I don’t even want to live like this…

St. Monica, pray for me and for my husband. I beg you.

 

[DJgang]

smith556…:console:

Do not forget that St. Monica was married to a Pagan! (but he did convert)

What did she do?

She continued to go to church, she continued to pray! Please, please surround yourself with the sacraments…

I will pray for you.

 

[smith556]

St. Monica works fast.

I was just online after my post, googling for topics regarding what you can possibly do about a husband that just forgets to go to work, forgets to show up, loses track of time, can’t keep anything clean, can’t remember to pay the bills, etc…

I ran across an article about a healed marriage…the man had ADD.

Articles like this could not descibe my husband more: additudemag.com/adhd/article/706.html

After 11 years of marriage, why has no one spotted this? He is a classic case. So dead-on it’s scary. Is it possible that he’s depressed and angry and acting out because he has behaviours that are hard for him to control, and since I didn’t understand them, he was always letting me down? Makes so much sense that I feel terrible for not discovering it earlier and hurting him out of vengence.

Anyone else dealing with this?

Thank you, St. Monica.

 

[Cagrl]

Please, please pray for the conversion of my husband. He is lost in the dark but doesn’t think he is. Truly, he is though. Thank you so much. My family needs a miracle for this one!

My husband is a wonderful man but unfortunately in the same boat as yours when it comes to our faith. Please pray for mine too. Your husband is in my prayers. Praying for everyone on this thread.

 

[DJgang]

St. Monica works fast.

I was just online after my post, googling for topics regarding what you can possibly do about a husband that just forgets to go to work, forgets to show up, loses track of time, can’t keep anything clean, can’t remember to pay the bills, etc…

I ran across an article about a healed marriage…the man had ADD.

Articles like this could not descibe my husband more: additudemag.com/adhd/article/706.html

After 11 years of marriage, why has no one spotted this? He is a classic case. So dead-on it’s scary. Is it possible that he’s depressed and angry and acting out because he has behaviours that are hard for him to control, and since I didn’t understand them, he was always letting me down? Makes so much sense that I feel terrible for not discovering it earlier and hurting him out of vengence.

Anyone else dealing with this?

Thank you, St. Monica.

I am still praying for you and everyone here!

 

[DJgang]

Please, please pray for the conversion of my husband. He is lost in the dark but doesn’t think he is. Truly, he is though. Thank you so much. My family needs a miracle for this one!

I am praying for you!

 

[mom4truth]

Thank you, Dana. I really need lots of help on this one! God bless you! I’ll pray for your needs also!

 

[katy]

for everyone.

 

[Cagrl]

for everyone.

Thank you, katy.

 

[mom4truth]

Dear Cagrl & Djang,

I am praying for you both! So sorry about you both. Surely we can all pray for each other and God will get us out of this mess.

Whenever 2 or 3 are joined together, God is in their midst, right?
I’m holding on to that one! It’d better work!

much love!

 

[DJgang]

Whenever 2 or 3 are joined together, God is in their midst, right?
I’m holding on to that one! It’d better work!

much love!

Yes, my sister in Christ, yes!

I have decided to choose St. Monica as my patron saint. Because…I wonder if my DH will ever convert, I have sons and I have a MIL that is a… However, she was hopeful and her prayers were answered…God bless St. Monica!