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**Speareerfug** · 10-07-2010, 07:42 AM

We did this before getting married. They call it pre-Cana. It is like a course that, in our case, lasted about eight hours. The actual priest was only there for at most an hour, and gave general spiritual guidance. The actual marriage-specific advice was given by volunteers who were married couples. Who had about nineteen kids each, IIRC.

Did you feel like you benefited from this? I thought it was a complete waste of time and money for me. It wasted one gorgeous saturday and bunch of week nights. Plus it cost us 200$ so that we could fill out a 300 question scan-tron sheet and get it graded to see where we differ (which we have known for years). I really get sick of all the obligatory stuff that churches try to force you into, and talking for hours about ways God shows he loves you, LOL is not how I want to spend my night.

The only other battles I have left are baptism and genital mutilation if I have a boy.

What is funny is that I read agnostics and atheists have lower divorce rates. Statistics can mislead though.

10-07-2010, 07:42 AM	#31
Speareerfug Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 475 Senior Member	We did this before getting married. They call it pre-Cana. It is like a course that, in our case, lasted about eight hours. The actual priest was only there for at most an hour, and gave general spiritual guidance. The actual marriage-specific advice was given by volunteers who were married couples. Who had about nineteen kids each, IIRC. Did you feel like you benefited from this? I thought it was a complete waste of time and money for me. It wasted one gorgeous saturday and bunch of week nights. Plus it cost us 200$ so that we could fill out a 300 question scan-tron sheet and get it graded to see where we differ (which we have known for years). I really get sick of all the obligatory stuff that churches try to force you into, and talking for hours about ways God shows he loves you, LOL is not how I want to spend my night. The only other battles I have left are baptism and genital mutilation if I have a boy. What is funny is that I read agnostics and atheists have lower divorce rates. Statistics can mislead though.
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