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teachccd
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You never heard of couples complimenting each other. Or soul mates?? Oh, I’m sorry. I stand corrected by a previous poster. I meant helpmate…
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teachccd
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And the two shall become one…I must have another Bible…Yes, helpmate, I’ll be there in a minute!!
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MFRita
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I was just married this year at 26 years old.
I thought I wanted to marry at a young age, but, I hadn’t met the right man.
I can say I’m glad I waiting until I was a little older, but really I’m just glad that I waited for my husband.
The right time is when you have no doubts that you’ve found the man God wants for you.
I thought I wanted to marry at a young age, but, I hadn’t met the right man.
I can say I’m glad I waiting until I was a little older, but really I’m just glad that I waited for my husband.
The right time is when you have no doubts that you’ve found the man God wants for you.
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Rach620
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See the quote in my sig–it’s not something only in the movies. God designed us for communion with Him, and married people find that communion with Him through communion with one another. My husband and I find ourselves through giving ourselves to each other, and together help to build up the Church, which is Christ’s bride. I’m thinking of Ephesians 5…
I would take a different view towards discerning marriage as a vocation. I have had many friends who were surprised to find that their vocation was to marriage–they only discovered it through particular relationships with particular people. I wouldn’t say that you are so much called to marriage as a vocation in the abstract, but in the particular, real instance of a relationship with another human being, a person to whom you are called to sacrifice your whole self and with whom you are to bring up a family to glorify God.
To answer the OP, a good time to get married is when God calls you. Everyone has different circumstances and timelines…We got married at 21 and 22, the summer before our last semester of college. Our relationship is so strong, and I can’t imagine our lives any differently, although I can see every day how much we are sacrificing by the world’s standards. God provides, and He is so good!
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Dtmccameron
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Aye, I remember that line, but just because “2 become 1” doesn’t mean that all of a sudden “2 which is two 1s, is now made up of 1s which are in fact now =1/2 or 0.5, if you like”.And the two shall become one…I must have another Bible…Yes, helpmate, I’ll be there in a minute!!
There. Aha! I just there completely and irrefutable and clearly prooved beyond all the shadow of a doubt with absolute certainty and mathematics that…something.
You get my point, right?
Just cause you’re now part of a whole doesn’t mean you were simply a piece of the whole beforehand.
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Rach620
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I don’t think that is what they meant by “marriage means finding someone who completes you.” That’s actually the beauty of marriage–two WHOLE people, created by God, coming together to find even deeper aspects of themselves through their union with one another. Maybe that sounds too abstract…but really, *complementarity *is nothing new to the Catholic theology of marriage!
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teachccd
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THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH for understanding me!!
These other folks are all wrapped up in math problems. Of course if one is not married they are not half of a person. The word that I chose, “complete” is what happens when the two become one. Hence the term soulmates. Only those who experience this could possibly know what I mean. Yes, two WHOLE people come together to complete one union whereby each gives 100%.
It’s not about math, my friends. It’s about covenantal love that a couple enters into and becomes one. We emulate the covenantal love of God while always knowing that God is not incomplete without us. But with us His covenant with us is complete and so it is within a marriage.
So you math wizzards and half people out there, know that I speak from a marriage that is 27 years young and I’d marry my wife all over again. How can you refute success and tell me that I don’t know what I am talking about?? I just have to
!!God bless…teachccd
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teachccd
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Let me guess: Two wrongs don’t make a right??
HHMMMM, decisions, decisions. I’ll go with the .05.
Your last sentence is confusing.
Just because you’re now **part **of a whole…doesn’t mean that you were a piece (part) of the whole beforehand?? Oh great one 
…enlighten me :newidea: …
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Catholic90
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Well, we had a 3 pm ceremony…that time was really good.
Breakfast in the morning, all day to prepare, nuptial mass, then immediately to reception, dinner, and dancing the night away!
11 and 1 both seemed too early, since that raised the question of what would our guests do for several hours until the dinner and dance…
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kage_ar
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Some of us who do not hold the romantic notion of soulmates also have decades of marriage behind us, would marry the same man again - yet, we know that there is much more than romance to a sacramental marriage.
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Caesar517
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Wow, I hope I find a helpmate someday. 
Maybe if I’m really blessed I’ll find someone who truly does complete me. Someone I can spend the rest of my life with.
Maybe if I’m really blessed I’ll find someone who truly does complete me. Someone I can spend the rest of my life with.
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teachccd
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Interesting how I have this response and then…
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teachccd
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This one…Wow, I hope I find a helpmate someday.
Maybe if I’m really blessed I’ll find someone who truly does complete me. Someone I can spend the rest of my life with.
God Bless you and I hope that you do as well.
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kage_ar
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I find it odd that laughing at Scripture is so prevalant on a Catholic message board…
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teachccd
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Really?? Thank you for sharing…
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teachccd
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You seem to find where Scripture says, " and the two shall become one" quite irrelavent. Isn’t that the same disrespect??
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kage_ar
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Show one time where I have stated that passage is irrelevant.
I have said that the Scripture and Tradition do not hold the idea of “soul mates” and that the line “you complete me” came from a hollywood movie. Here is the line, youtube.com/watch?v=NpWAlvWNZj0
Now, can you prove where I said Mark 10:8 or Matthew 9:15 are irrelevant? If not, I’d appreciate an apology.
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teachccd
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When you apologize for stating that my marriage of 27 years came from a movie quote on YouTube then I will apologize for my misconception of your knowledge of Scritpure.
My wife is my soulmate and that is very real to me and many others who know the covenantal love of marriage. Quit hanging on to rhetorics and hear the message. You watch too many movies. I don’t and I never heard of whatever movie you are referring to since I refuse to go to YouTube for reference. How bold can you be?? Can you prove that my wife is not my soul mate and completes the very essence of my being? If not, then I’d appreciate an apology…teachccd
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kage_ar
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A quick lesson before I go to teach CCD and RCIA…
The passages mentioned above, and below in context, both state that the two shall become one flesh. Note that Christ did not say the two shall become one soul or the two shall be come one, Christ is speaking of the flesh. He is speaking of the physical union of a husband and wife, and then he follows in preaching against divorce.
Mark 10
‘God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
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Matthew 19:
He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
The passages mentioned above, and below in context, both state that the two shall become one flesh. Note that Christ did not say the two shall become one soul or the two shall be come one, Christ is speaking of the flesh. He is speaking of the physical union of a husband and wife, and then he follows in preaching against divorce.
Mark 10
‘God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
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Matthew 19:
He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
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kage_ar
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My my! I said, over and over, that the phrase “you complete me” came from a movie. That the idea of a soul mate is not in the Bible.
Debate is about the ideas, the teaching from Scripture and Tradition. I have debated those points. You are the one who took this as a personal affront on your marriage.
I’ve backed up all I have said, I am sorry that is not enough for you, and I apologize that you take those things as an personal insult, they were not intended as such.
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