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I am in my early twenties and find it very hard to find any other young couples who follow church teachings. I am married with two children; when people find out they are astonished. Actually, they only make nasty comments when they find out that I have two children AND I am married. Are there any other young couples out there?
 
Sweety,
We are in our late 20’s, we have 2.75 kids, and it should be a full 3 by the end of the month… 😃 We are pretty conservative and follow church teachings to the best of our knowledge!

Brandon
 
Funny to think that my husband and I are no longer in the “young couples” category! He is 35 and I am nearly 33. We have three children and will have been married 10 years this year. I sympathize that it is hard to find other young couples with children your age. Some times it seems like people fall off the face of the earth after they “graduate” from the high school and then college youth groups, only to reappear some time in middle age with a sudden urge to make sure their children “get some religious education” before they leave the nest.

The Franciscan University at Steubenville (and similar universities like Thomas Aquinas in CA, Christendom in VA, Ave Maria in MI/FL) has many graduates that are now young married couples like yourselves. I know FUS has travelling youth programs. I wonder if they have something similar for young marrieds? Or perhaps joining a group like the lay carmelites or franciscans would help you find like-minded people? Opus Dei? I think sometimes you have to look outside the parish church and into these lay apostolates for companionship. If you have local Catholic radio, sometimes they advertise local retreats or conferences which are a good way to meet people.

Sad and funny that people wouldn’t be as shocked to hear you had two children if you were still unwed, yet to have chosen deliberately to marry and then have babies is a scandal! I can only imagine they are calculating your years remaining of fertility and the number of children your marriage may produce. Woe to the overpopulation crowd! 🙂 God bless you and your family.
 
Greetings!

My husband and I are 26, we have one 13 month old daughter and hope to have many more on the way. My husband comes from a family of 11 kids, and his siblings and their husbands and wives make up our circle of devout young catholics. Outside of us, most couples, young and old, catholic and protestant, look at us and laughingly remark that we are a “catholic rabbit family.”

I have loved getting on this forum and meeting others who share our same radical love for the Faith.

Kelli
 
My Dh is 26, I’m 27 =) We have two babies, 3 and 17 mos.
It is hard being a faithful catholic and being young. When I joined the moms group at our church I was 24? Everyone seemed sooooo old (hehe). I did manage to meet 2 other couples that are even a little younger than we are so we arent quite so lonely anymore!
Its also nice to have places like this where we can know ‘we arent alone’ out there!
Congrats to all who are expecting!

-K
 
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kirabira:
My Dh is 26, I’m 27 =) We have two babies, 3 and 17 mos.
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My wife and I were trying to figure out what “Dh” was? We came up with the following:

Deadbeat Husband
Divorced Husband
Dear Husband
Darn husband
Disallusioned Husband
Darling husband
Dreadful husband

??

BTW… I saw you like photography, what do you shoot? I LOVE photography!

Brandon
 
its dear* or darling* hehehe

I pretty much just shoot the babies now LOl.
We got the new digital sony f828 a few months ago and I’m loving it.

I did have a session with 3 kittens the other day for a cat rescue group (nice pictures are a MUST for finding homes for strays).
The big let down was, tho I tried very hard, I was not able to convince them that the cats would look much cuter in the photos if they were in a cute basket-- or maybe wearing some tiny spectacles and bonnets? Some people have no vision for art. lol

K
 
I am 23 and my huband is 25. We will be celebrating our 3 year aniversary this month. We have a 13 month old daughter and are expecting our second child in December.

I have found it very difficult to find any sort of social support outside of our immediate families. In our parish, there are are very few truly devout Catholic families, especially in our age group. There is another parish in town with a larger number of young families who are faithful to the church, and many family activities, but I am currently unable to transfer parishes because I am employed by my parish in music ministry, and we really need the income right now. We do have a great priest, though. He is 40 but has only been a priest for 5 years. He is very orthodox.

Although I have not had very many comments about my age and marital/ parental status, I find that I do get very lonely for female companionship. My husband is great, but I wish I had some friends who were in similar circumstances as me.
 
This is my first post here, I’ve been browsing this forum for quite awhile, and it’s great!!
My husband and I are both 29 (okay, so were slowing growing out of the ‘young couple’ catagory!) we have been married for 9 years, and our 7th child is due in November. While we are no longer the youngest couple in our great group of Catholic friends, we are certainly the youngest with 7 children!! It is very hard for other women my age, even Catholic women my age, to relate or understand why I embrace my faith the way I do in this world that we live in. It can be disheartening, but, I consider that a very small burden. The harder part for me is NOT having support, encouragement, or understanding from my family. And then, there are those rude strangers that are always asking me, “do they all have the same daddy?” Aye!!

~Lisa, wife to Tony,
mama to Nicholas, Abigail, Gabriel, Isaac, Mary, Samuel, and baby due in November
 
Wow! Very encouraging to see this topic. My husband and I are 24, married 11 months and hoping to start a family asap. Our two biggest struggles are 1) his unsupportive family (while my supportive family lives 1200 miles away) and 2) our DEEP lack of community with other young married Catholic couples.

His parents have chastised us for the mere mention of having children at any time in the near future–they are firm believers that one should own a house and have XXX,XXX in the bank before starting a family. We are in an apartment and successfully adding to our savings for the future, but we may or may not own a home by the time we conceive–partially because we’re not sure we’ll be staying in Philadelphia for long term. Sometimes I just think it would be soooooo reassuring to have OTHER Catholic young couples to talk these things over with and gain their holy perspectives–while coming to understand we aren’t the only ones in whatever situation.
My good–but single–Catholic girlfriends (all of whom live very far away) just don’t have any personal experience with the challenges a newly married couple face.
 
If there aren’t any national or regional fellowships for young married orthodox Catholic couples, perhaps the Holy Spirit might move someone here to start one…
 
We aren’t in the young catagory any more either, I am 36 and dh is 38… We are expecting our 6th child. You might find some like minded couples at Nextwavefaithful.com. It is a new apostolate ran by Stephanie Wood, Steve Wood’s daughter. If I am wrong on the site, go to dads.org and there is a link off of that. I know they have a forum there. I am not sure if it is very active yet.

Happy to see there are some good faithful Catholic young couples out there.
 
I’m still looking for th right girl, but I am delighted by all of you.
Please remember there’s always room for one more,
and your fruits will not only be with you through life and for all eternity in Heaven (odds are great!), but they will be the doctors, nurses, police, firemen, and religious who save your persecutors, one way or another! There won’t be any of their kids around to feed them in the home… :rotfl:

May Jesus and Mary bless,
Never give up, never surrender! 😃
 
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sweety:
I am in my early twenties and find it very hard to find any other young couples who follow church teachings. I am married with two children; when people find out they are astonished. Actually, they only make nasty comments when they find out that I have two children AND I am married. Are there any other young couples out there?
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 sweety, this is a wonderful thread you wrote.   Don't let some people get to you in the form of their criticism, you are doing the right thing.
You know, I really wish I were married, in order that I and my wife could do exactly what the Church teaches regarding marriage and children. Consider yourself really blessed to be married.
 
Oops, seems I made a mistake here. Anyway I want to tell you, may God Bless you and your family.
:) :blessyou:
 
My husband and I are 28 and 26 and we are about to have our third baby in Oct. I completely understand how hard it is to find young catholic couples but we would settle for any young couples who have at least the same morals as us. The closest thing we have are our neighbors who are morman and have 4 kids.
 
I am 22 and my dh is 29. We were married a little over a year ago and just had our first baby in April. I totally understand about not having any Catholic couples around. I graduated from FUS where there are hundreds of them, and the first time I came to daily Mass here with my husband we were the youngest people there by about 30 years, at least! We are lucky to have my friends from school to go visit and to chat with online, but other than that…nothing. It’s very hard to have good friends that you can’t talk about your faith with and that you have to be PC with so as not to offend them. Needless to say, they generally aren’t your GOOD friends.

God bless you and keep the faith!
Krista
 
Maybe there’s a way to use this to minister to one another…especially since this thread may continue to grow. I would be more than willing to help jumpstart a national or regional Young Catholic Marrieds Group, but I simply don’t know how…

By the way…my husband and I live in the Philadelphia Archdiocese…anyone near us?? On the east coast, even?? I think I will go check out the website reccommended above…
 
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