When your marriage is in dire straits . . . there’s a book for that.

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 1:13 pm by Jennifer Fitz

When your marriage is in dire straits . . . there’s a book for that. 2014-12-27T13:13:46-05:00 Jennifer Fitz

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It is with great joy that I pass onto you the news of Dr. Greg Popcak’s latest book release When Divorce Is Not an Option: How to Heal Your Marriage and Nurture Everlasting Love. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my wish list. There’s a huge void in the marriage literature between the cliffs of Marriage is Wonderful! and Better Luck Next Time! I’m glad to see Dr. Greg making a stab at filling that chasm.

You can read more about it here.

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Lest we forget the Catechism does have a few words to say on civil divorce as a legitimate recourse in extreme situations:

2383 The separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law.177

If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense.

And:

2386 It can happen that one of the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage.179

Kat Fernandez has a few choice words for those who insist on asking, “Why didn’t you leave??”. Must-read.

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Christian marriage isn’t easy, but it’s not complicated either. It’s the doing what we need to do that always gets us.

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