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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biggest mistake I made was getting married outside of the Catholic Church. If you have any interest in attending the church after your wedding, receiving communion or baptizing your future children, do the Catholic wedding. I didn't really understand that when I got married.[/quote]

Oh and to follow up, we were married in a protestant church, but we still did pre-cana like things. We LOVED our premarital counseling. We thought it was incredibly interesting and liked talking to the older couples. You do not have to go through RCIA to get married even though you weren't confirmed.

And secondly, NFP doesn't suck. We really enjoy it. We use NFP and pull out and it has worked for us for years. My body didn't like birth control and DH didn't like condoms, so it's the best choice for us. NFP is very similar to what you read in Taking Charge of your Fertility, which I see as female empowerment and knowing how your body works.[/quote]

If your DH pulls out you are not really practicing NFP. In order to be "open to life" you are not supposed to use any form of contraception and that includes pulling out. NFP posits that if you only have sex during the infertile part of your cycle (and you figure out when that is by using NFP...charting your cycle, temps, physical symptoms) but use no method of contraception otherwise (including withdrawal) then you are still "open to life." [/quote]

In being 100% perfectly honest here as a Catholic...if we did this, which btw I have no problems with being "open to life" but we could not feasibly afford it in this area. God's going to have provide in some huge way for me to be able to convince DH that we need to be "open to life" to be a good church abiding Catholic and get "credit" for being "open to life"

If I could pop out 5 kids while being "open to life" and be able to provide for all 5 kids I'd do it, but fact and reality is that in this area with the high cost of living that just won't happen.

So what's your practical suggestion?[/quote]

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