[Elsie]

This would be considered adultery.

Not necessarily.

We have the Roman model of 'Mary" and 'Joseph'.

They 'lived together' without having sexual relations; so; just perhaps...

[ealgeone]

Except they were married. But, to Roman Catholic belief this was an invalid marriage as there was, per Roman Catholic dogma but not the New Testament, no inclination to have children of their own.

I tell ya....the more I continue to study Roman Catholicism, the more convoluted it gets.