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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have. He's Catholic and was practicing until we left DC shortly after our wedding. Now he has a choice of two Catholic churches and doesn't like either. Won't attend a Protestant church - "too early". I suppose it's most likely more than that. [/quote]

He sounds like a hypocrite who needs to stop harping on you for not being "devout" while skipping out on services[/quote]

^^ the voice of indoctrination^^[/quote]

NP.  Don't get this comment and kind of agreed with the hypocrite poster, even though I'm an Atheist leaning agnostic, because I got the impression the OP's DH was saying one thing and his actions were saying another. ("You're not devout enough" + not practicing a religion one self seems fairly hypocritical.)

That said my recommendation to OP is to *talk* about this issue with her husband.  Point out - gently - that his words and actions don't seem to match, and she want's to understand how he feels and thinks about this issues.  Try to do it without judging or getting defensive or anything else - try to just listen and understand your spouse.

Once both parties actually know each other's real position then you can work on a family compromise, and feel free to be sad if your spouse's point of view doesn't match your ideal version of how you wish they would think.

But it's very hard to move forward when the actual issue is obscured and the 2 parties aren't having the same conversation.  It's that good old scientific method at work: the very first step is to identify the question.[/quote]

Good response--this is a problem of marital communication.[/quote]

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