Marriage Class

Should be interesting...

we are doing these classes...

they are next weekend though for us, plus meeting with our priest several times over the next 7 months before the wedding.

i've heard they are actually pretty good, give you good advice on stuff - like finances and discussing children,etc.  I'm more afraid for the meetings with our actual priest because he has a ton of questions to ask us separately and together.  that might be the compatibility thing you are referring to, aie aie aie.  and they can refuse to marry you based on that stuff.  

i think we should be ok.  our priest said that there are three things necessary for a catholic marriage when you say your vows - 1) you have to mean them 2) that you will be faithful, 3) that you intend to have children  

the part that scares me is the whole 'invalid' marriage bit, that your marriage can be found to be null - it never was.

anyway, getting off topic.  we are doign these courses too.  let us know how it goes for you.

We finished our classes.  they weren't that bad.  They made us think about a lot of things that will happen in our marriage and how we are planning on dealing with them.

The compatibility test that they give you don't really test what you're thinking: it's a quiz to see if you're thinking the same things for your marriage, how many children do you both want to have, how will you raise them, thoughts on in-laws....etc.

FH is Catholic and we are going through the classes and we had to do the engaged encounter weekend. It has been a neat experience- engaged encounter was amazing brought us so much closer and we learned things about eachother even after 2 yrs of ling together. The "test" is called Foccus, it is simply a tool to help the Priest guide you through your class. You take it seperately and then typically the priest brings up the things that your answers differ on...its things like family (Do you feel like your partners family requires too much of their time).  Ideas on raising kids, chores, division of money- if you go into it with an open mind you should learn from it. It's really designed to help the two of you approach topics that you haven't thought of :)

I am not Catholic, but we are Christians and we taking marriage classes. We are going on our  7th session and we have learned alot and some of the questions have you thinking. Our last session got next to me a little(maybe I just took it wrong), the topic was how some marriage fail and how people get so caught up in the ceremony and receptions and don't really understand the true meaning of the marriage and they gave us an example of a couple who only be married for about three months and they are heading for divorce and I know they were just letting us know what can happen if you fall off track, I understand that part, but what got next to me was like, well this what I got from it ,just don't have a ceremony and reception and just get married at the justice of peace or something of that nature, those weren't the exact words but that just how I took it. I mean you are going to be excited about getting married to the person you love and want to spend the rest of your lives together and that is something to be excited about and what to celebrate with your love ones and friends but our session that we had just took all of  the excitement out of having a nice wedding, but I understand what they were saying overall

None of our classes have discussed divorce or anything negative. I hope it wont be that way :)