Inability to honor and venerate Blessed Mary is a serious spiritual defect in you, particularly as men. Not only does it turn you away from her Son, it makes you worse husbands and sons in the world. My sincere recommendation to you three is to spend some time in prayer and worry less how other, better advanced through the merits of their infallible Catholic Church, Christians praise God and His creation.
If you have a question on how to become better men, please ask.
Because you say so? It certainly doesn't say or imply that in the bible.
Not only does it turn you away from her Son, it makes you worse husbands and sons in the world.
Because you say so? It certainly doesn't say anything like this in the bible. You are into pure rationalization mode here. You might as well start dissing the bible because it disses women in so many ways.
My undiluted, unadulterated, undistracted love for God is a spiritual defect? My refusal to be a spiritual momma's boy makes me less of a man? Why is it, then, that the places where the cult of the BVM is strongest are also the places where sex roles are distorted? Latin American Machismo, for example, lets the man get away with all kinds of childish and abusive behavior, while the woman holds the purse strings. Don't you understand that your efforts to move a supplemental deity into the part of my consciousness reserved for God is sin?
If you have a question on how to become a true Christian and not a Cult of Mary apostate, please ask.
This is a simple spiritual exercise for you three. Get a Crucifix, -- not an empty cross, a Cricifix, -- and put it in your bedroom. Every now and then, look at it.
This will put you at the foot of the Cross, and in the same position Mary and John stood.
This is an icon that explains the relationship very well:
