Annulments are not easy things to obtain. You have to prove there was no “real” marriage to begin with. If the husband could be proven to have mental issues before the marriage, then perhaps an annulment is possible.
Otherwise ...you take your husband in sickness or in health, til death do us part.
They were married over 10 years. My sister worked hard at it, but was becoming frightened of him. He was getting violent and saying nonsensical things. In addition, she was heading an OSI detachment and when she lead the security team for Roslyn Carter on Carter’s visit to Maine, the Secret Service showed her his letters to the President. We’re talking about two people who carry guns. He was a licensed private investigator.
It was definitely time to go. Luckily, he’d called his father and so worried the elderly man he raced to Maine and had his son committed. I think they’re both fortunate it ended that way.
Well, yes. So. Either take marriage seriously, or don’t.
Adults get married. Either they’re wise in their choice, or they can tell the Church, they weren’t serious about all those vows during their matrimonial mass.
But there are consequences.
A lot of people who are Catholic think they can tell God there shouldn’t be consequences, this German bishop included, so, join them.
But there are consequences.
I think you mean that when people get married in the Church, they shouldn’t be expected to actually live up to it.
If there are legitimate reasons to annul the marriage, the Church will annul it. That has to be easier? In what way? And why?
People just revel in scolding the Church. Take it somewhere else, leave me out of it. Adults can either be adults and make good decisions or live with the bad ones.
That’s too literal an application about “until sickness and in health.”
There are all kinds of very complicated marriage relationships. Today, according to one study several married couples live apart in the same house since divorce gets the whole family into the poorhouse.