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[quote=Anonymous]Make him take the kids with him.  Seriously (even if you hate the church.)

I'm a fallen away Catholic (now agnostic) who really hates  the church's teachings on women's reproductive rights. I think it's scandalous how its covered up the abuses. I'd say I also don't love the teachings about women's roles in the church and how only men can be priests, but since becoming agnostic I've stopped caring about that.

BUT I will say that I know it is hard for Catholics to embrace another church.  When you're raised in the church it's ingrained in you that yours is the one and only true church. No other church except for the Orthodox will satisfy the "holy obligation" of weekly mass.  There's a ritual to it that other church's services just don't satisfy.  I bet that is where your DH is coming from.

You can't force your DH to believe or not to believe.  You can talk to your kids about why you disagree with daddy's church on particular issues.  You can ask DH to go to 6 or 7 am mass at least while the kids are young.  You can take an hour of your own on the weekend to do something for you so you don't feel like it's lopsided.

You probably should see a counselor to figure out what this means for your marriage if your DH is feeling his way back to some kind of spirituality and you don't have it - because that can create a rift between the two of you.

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