Rebuilding Trust After Hurt in Catholic Marriage

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of pain that only a spouse can inflict. Not because husbands and wives are crueler than other people, but because no one else has been let in that far. The vow you made — to give yourself fully, faithfully, forever — creates an intimacy that makes any wound to it cut in a different register entirely. If you’re reading this in the aftermath of a betrayal, or in the slow exhaustion of a recurring hurt you can’t seem to get past, you already know this in your body.

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Rebuilding Trust After Hurt in Catholic Marriage