Dating: What are your deal-breakers?

[Skappola]

True as according to your particular interpretation, and the interpretation of, say, 1 or 2 million other people, out of 7 billion people.

1 or 2 million out of 7 billion? Try 1 or 2 billion out of 7 billion.

Once again, I suggest, as a fellow Roman Catholic, to actually read the Catechism. It doesn't ban divorce.

[Mike the Progressive]

1 or 2 million out of 7 billion? Try 1 or 2 billion out of 7 billion.

Once again, I suggest, as a fellow Roman Catholic, to actually read the Catechism. It doesn't ban divorce.

Yep. Just re-marriage after a divorce.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

This is one of the reasons why I keep my own Christianity at arm's length.
I don't want to end up getting blindsided by my own beliefs.

I thought you said you respected my stance?

I respect it. I don't agree with it.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

1 or 2 million out of 7 billion? Try 1 or 2 billion out of 7 billion.

Once again, I suggest, as a fellow Roman Catholic, to actually read the Catechism. It doesn't ban divorce.

Yes it does. You are permitted to separate from your spouse, but not to remarry, unless an annulment is granted. And an annulment is not a divorce, an annulment means the marriage was never valid to begin with.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Neptumo has an odd approach. Then again he's perhaps the most hyper-conservative catholic I know.

Are you certain of that? I'm sure you know Catholics that are anti-gay, anti-welfare, etc. I am none of those things.

I know. You're still pretty old fashioned in dating tho.

Open minded? Yes. But not necessarily in everything.

[Skappola]

Once again, I suggest, as a fellow Roman Catholic, to actually read the Catechism. It doesn't ban divorce.

Yep. Just re-marriage after a divorce.

Not if the married receive an annulment. Admittedly, an annulment does suggest that the couple was never married in the first place.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

I thought you said you respected my stance?

I respect it. I don't agree with it.

Perhaps you ought not assume I am blinded by my own beliefs, then.

[Skappola]

Once again, I suggest, as a fellow Roman Catholic, to actually read the Catechism. It doesn't ban divorce.

Yes it does. You are permitted to separate from your spouse, but not to remarry, unless an annulment is granted. And an annulment is not a divorce, an annulment means the marriage was never valid to begin with.

For all intents and purposes an annulment is a divorce, but fair enough.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

Are you certain of that? I'm sure you know Catholics that are anti-gay, anti-welfare, etc. I am none of those things.

I know. You're still pretty old fashioned in dating tho.
Open minded? Yes. But not necessarily in everything.

Old fashioned? Perhaps. I have nothing but disdain for the way dating is handled in our culture today. It's all about sex sex sex, nothing else.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I respect it. I don't agree with it.

Perhaps you ought not assume I am blinded by my own beliefs, then.

I don't assume that you are.

I'm just curious and somewhat perplexed at your self-assurance you won't be in a bad marriage.

[Harrisvile]

Since i am forever alone, nothing is a deal-breaker. Maybe being a republican if anything.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

Yes it does. You are permitted to separate from your spouse, but not to remarry, unless an annulment is granted. And an annulment is not a divorce, an annulment means the marriage was never valid to begin with.

For all intents and purposes an annulment is a divorce, but fair enough.

Not really. It is grounded in theology, you can't just get an annulment because you want one. It has to be theologically justified, it has to be certain that your marriage was never valid.

[Mike the Progressive]

Yep. Just re-marriage after a divorce.

Not if the married receive an annulment. Admittedly, an annulment does suggest that the couple was never married in the first place.

I'm aware, but you mentioned divorce (which is what I was addressing)

[Prumia]

Any woman who refuses to think. By that I mean the "ignorance is bliss," type of refusing to think. If they are not intelligent then I tend to start manipulating them for no other reason than because I can.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

Perhaps you ought not assume I am blinded by my own beliefs, then.

I don't assume that you are.

I'm just curious and somewhat perplexed at your self-assurance you won't be in a bad marriage.

I have no such self-assurance. I only have assurance that I don't believe in divorce, and will never get one. I will work through my problems, should I encounter them.

Besides, the marital success rate of people who practic abstinence is 80%, as opposed to 50% in the general populace.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I know. You're still pretty old fashioned in dating tho.
Open minded? Yes. But not necessarily in everything.

Old fashioned? Perhaps. I have nothing but disdain for the way dating is handled in our culture today. It's all about sex sex sex, nothing else.

I date to have fun and hope it develops into something serious.

So far it hasn't, but I keep at it. If anything just to be sure I didn't miss out on someone I might have passed up.

[Skappola]

For all intents and purposes an annulment is a divorce, but fair enough.

Not really. It is grounded in theology, you can't just get an annulment because you want one. It has to be theologically justified, it has to be certain that your marriage was never valid.

Let's just stop arguing about this.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I don't assume that you are.

I'm just curious and somewhat perplexed at your self-assurance you won't be in a bad marriage.

I have no such self-assurance. I only have assurance that I don't believe in divorce, and will never get one. I will work through my problems, should I encounter them.

Besides, the marital success rate of people who practic abstinence is 80%, as opposed to 50% in the general populace.

Yeah. As someone whose mother abandoned me and 17 years later slept with my oldest brother and was a virgin who had been with my dad only I call that bullshit.

Perhaps I'm not as optimistic about marriage myself. I also got off the horse that Virgins are faithful.

[Ethel mermania]

Tell that to him.

He's 65 and still believes he can be out in the dating market.

I won't stop him.

Gotta respect a man who wants to do it over and over until her gets it right.

there is a logic to that. I always went with the troubleshooting module.
if there is something broken and you replace the part (wife), and it's still broken, that's not the part that needed to be replaced.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Gotta respect a man who wants to do it over and over until her gets it right.

there is a logic to that. I always went with the troubleshooting module.
if there is something broken and you replace the part (wife), and it's still broken, that's not the part that needed to be replaced.

Eh. He won't change. Mostly because, well, his attitude is one of he being right all the time.

[Kazarogkai]

Is a libertarian/conservative and is a racist/anti-LGBT/anti-feminist/does (too much) drugs/pseudoscience believer.

I don't really care for religion, as long as she isn't overly religious or you know, the above thanks to said religion.

This is the second time I have ask, by what people mean when they say overly?

Considering wearing religious clothing could be considered overly by some.

I personally am a Spiritual person overall but am not religious, I do have a belief in the supernatural and the occult to one degree or another. But I am not apart of any organized religion like say Christianity or Islam, nor do I ever intend on being with one for I see them as truly negative and damaging influences on society that must be eradicated in the name of national unity and stability and the overall greater good of all. I wouldn't be able to stand living with anyone who is actually a professed member of honestly any organized religion for the most part, I can handle a belief in god or heck even witchcraft or whatever but wouldn't wish to have a partner who was a member of any of the organized religious groups.

[American California]

I don't like people who assume that my stuff is their stuff.

[Threlizdun]

No, your interpretation of Christianity states these things. There are plenty of Christians that believe otherwise. Stating Christianity as a whole states this is dishonest.

The vast majority of Christian sects forbid divorce, and the true Christian Churches all do.

No, the vast majority don't forbid divorce, though it's charming that you believe you get to decide what the true Christian churches are.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

This is the second time I have ask, by what people mean when they say overly?

Considering wearing religious clothing could be considered overly by some.

I personally am a Spiritual person overall but am not religious, I do have a belief in the supernatural and the occult to one degree or another. But I am not apart of any organized religion like say Christianity or Islam, nor do I ever intend on being with one for I see them as truly negative and damaging influences on society that must be eradicated in the name of national unity and stability and the overall greater good of all. I wouldn't be able to stand living with anyone who is actually a professed member of honestly any organized religion for the most part, I can handle a belief in god or heck even witchcraft or whatever but wouldn't wish to have a partner who was a member of any of the organized religious groups.

If I can say I don't want to date atheists, I guess, fair enough.

[The United Neptumousian Empire]

The vast majority of Christian sects forbid divorce, and the true Christian Churches all do.

No, the vast majority don't forbid divorce, though it's charming that you believe you get to decide what the true Christian churches are.

Catholicism is by far the largest Christian sect, having a billion followers. The second biggest is Orthodoxy, which is also, as far as I know, against divorce.

And no, I don't get to decide which Christian sects are the true ones, history does. Christ founded one Apostolic Church, and that Church fragmented into several legitimate parts. Protestants rebelled, left the true Church, and lost Apostolic Succession, and with it, any validity.