Reply #59: As a Catholic, the annulment idiocy drives me insane. [View All]

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I was just talking about this with my mom this weekend. My SIL (on dh's side) got married to a guy who'd been married before. He had two daughters about age 9 and 4 at the time. He got his first marriage annuled so he and SIL could be married in the church. :wtf:

Then I heard the ultimate in annulment hypocrisy this weekend. My sister is married to a guy who's also Catholic, and his family of origin is seriously dysfunctional. His dad seems like a sociopath who very likely sexually abused his two sisters, but who now have some sort of weird over-identification thing going on with their dad. Their dad used to be a deacon in the church. He travels all over the country for work, and he's been having a long term affair with another woman that he even lived with as a wife in these other states. My sister's MIL finally got sick of it and divorced him. Well, I heard this weekend that my sister's FIL wants to seek an annulment so he can be a church deacon again. An annulment of a marriage that lasted almost 50 years, produced 3 grown children and 7 grandchildren? Give me a break! :eyes: