Healing After Divorce

Rose Sweet, author of Rebuilding After Divorce: How to Make Your House a Home Again, takes calls from those who have been through divorces, and from those who would like to avoid one.

Questions Covered:

• I’ve been divorced for seven years, but every time I start the annulment process, I feel like I’m abandoning God. What should I think about this?
• How can I forgive myself so I can have a healthy relationship?
• How do I apologize to my 24 and 27 year olds for divorcing their abusive father 20 years ago?
• I was Divorced 40 years ago, but I can’t afford what they are charging for annulments, what should I do?
• What is the best advice you can give a newly married couple to avoid divorce?
• I am coming into the Church and I have questions about making my marriage sacramental or if it even can?
• I feel strongly that I was sacramentally married and I have a hard time feeling that I’m not. It’s been 14 years, how should I think about it?
• What is the balance between the commitment you made and the spouse who thinks that we should move on?
• If someone marries one person, but really loves someone else, is that marriage valid?
• How is annulment Biblical? It seems man-made.
• My 18 year old got married and it’s a bad situation. I know divorce is wrong, but his wife has serious problems and the relationship is dangerous. What should I do?

Resources Mentioned:

• Rose Sweet’s Website
• Rebuilding After Divorce: Making Your House a Home by Rose Sweet
• How to Understand & Petition for Your Decree of Nullity: A Little Book with Big Help by Rose Sweet
• A Woman’s Guide to Healing the Heartbreak of Divorce by Rose Sweet
• Healing the Divorced Heart: Devotions for Hope & Encouragement by Rose Sweet
• The Permanence of Matrimony – Catholic Answers Tract