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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not getting divorced would be one thing. [/quote]

Seriously.  :roll: [/quote]

OP specified they aren’t divorced.  [/quote]

They're not living together, which means they're not having sex, which is basically birth control. Abstinence within marriage is not ok in the Catholic Church.[/quote]

It takes two people to be married.  If someone chooses not to live with someone, or to do things with them, the other person can't force them to, either according to US law or. Catholic teaching.  [/quote]

Yes, this is true. Just saying, he's not really living in a valid Catholic marriage.[/quote]

I have no responsibility to make sure that he is following Catholic teaching. I do have a responsibility to make sure that my kids are, because I agreed to it in the custody agreement, both because I'd do it anyway because I know that the familiar church is a source of comfort for them, and because I signed a custody agreement in which I said I would.

I'm just not happy to follow his made up rules.

For example, on a recent Holy Day of obligation, I took one of the kids to a different church than the one we usually attend, one that was close to school and let him get to school on time.  Their father argued that "real" Catholics always attend their own parish.  This is a made up rule.  There is no rule that says that you can't attend a weekday mass at a church convenient to your work or school.  He was mad at me about something else, and decided to find something else to complain about.  [/quote]

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