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Second Thoughts About Divorcing Arnold
http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/26/maria-shriver-unsure-divorce-arnold-schwarzenegger/#.TvjcTTVSSNQ
Maria Shriver is telling friends she's now unsure if she wants to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger ... TMZ has learned.
We're told Maria is torn, partly because of her strong religious beliefs that do not include divorce.
Making matters even more complicated -- we're told Arnold still desperately wants Maria back, and has been "extremely sweet" to her and has made numerous gestures -- which include presents -- to win Maria back.
Maria filed for divorce on July 1, though she moved out months earlier. She's already bought a mansion in Brentwood, CA, which she's in the process of renovating.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)they use god as their reason. ?
demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)troubles of this world. We blame humanity (us too) for the troubles this world has endured throughout the ages.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Gotta either laugh or cry about it. I always liked her hugely. Him, not at all.
elleng
(130,646 posts)They can come to a separation agreement, imo. (just took me 3 years! )
hlthe2b
(102,058 posts)were shrunken by all those steroids long ago. Maria, I think is smarter than this, but I guess she needs her "bad boy." Bleah.
demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)Tikki
(14,548 posts)lousy person gives you gifts to keep your attention on him...
....this is straight out of Middle School...
Can you look into the face of a man who perverted justice
as a reward to a crony and then still call him husband!!!!
Tikki
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Nice to see it's still alive and well. NOT.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)It does indeed happen.
demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)Warpy
(111,106 posts)Shriver needs to read the fine print.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)question.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)Civil divorce, in and of itself, is not an impediment to receiving Holy Communion, as the Church does not recognize civil divorce.
Remarriage (absent an anullment) or cohabitation would preclude receiving Holy Communion.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)You know when my mother and dad got married back in 45 in Italy they had a civil union first because it was required for legal reason and then the following saturday they had the church wedding.
Warpy
(111,106 posts)Civil divorce is simply not recognized by the church.
Because of that, there is no impediment to communion.
The civil divorce allows her to live apart from him, oversees custody and support of children, and divides the property accrued during the marriage equitably. It has nothing to do with the church.
However, unless she tries to remarry, she can still receive communion. She'll be married to Arnold forever in the church unless she gets an annulment from the pope.
Get it? Civil divorce, fine. Never speak to him again as long as she lives, fine. She can receive communion every day of the week.
She'll just need to bribe the proper officials in Rome and get her children declared bastards via annulment if she wants to get married again.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Warpy
(111,106 posts)You are considered as being tied to a husband by the church but the legal stuff is straightened out and you can go your merry way and still receive communion as long as you don't remarry.
My Irish granny, a true believer if there ever was one, divorced my grandfather in the early 1930s. While there was no way outside of petitioning Rome for an annulment and declaring my mother a bastard for her to remarry, she was allowed communion as a chaste married woman living apart from her husband.
The church considers you married until you die. The state considers you divorced.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Her own housework?
marmar
(77,045 posts)Jesus, Maria y Josef.
Raine
(30,540 posts)and using religion is just an excuse for the public consumption to stay with him. If she still loves him and wants to stay with that's her business, she shouldn't have to make excuses.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)If he never intended to live up to his end of the marital vows, it's not a valid marriage in the eyes of the church.
ParkieDem
(494 posts)Isn't adultery grounds for divorce (in fact, the only grounds) in the Catholic church?
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)plenty of Catholics get divorced.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)RUMMYisFROSTED
(30,749 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I'm divorced, and happily so, but that was my choice alone.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I feel so bad for her.
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sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)nothing, but if they get back together, he will probably get all his movie contracts back again.
I will never understand how she could love that man, he's a deceiver and totally untrustworthy, but that's their private business. What was not, was the people of California's business, and she helped him to get away with his reckless behavior with women and the lies he told about it, to take over this state.
Some of it is probably her religion, but as a couple, they are both more powerful and as soon as they are back together we will see them on every major talk show giving advice to other couples.
Why do democrats always feel the need to rescue Republicans after they have self-destructed?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)oddly enough, when *I* see this dude I don't think "unchallengeable moral authority on all matters of sexual morality", but her mileage may vary.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Maybe they still love each other.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)piratefish08
(3,133 posts)musette_sf
(10,198 posts)In the immortal acronym of Dan Savage,
DTMFA!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)refused to live with him. Of course what the divorce meant to me was living in poverty my entire life - that will not happen to you. What the divorce meant to him was freedom to continue his life and remarrying. I saw no benefit from divorce but he sure did. Of course I got to raise the three children (including a severely disabled child) and he did not have anything to do with them except pay $20 child support every month.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)every aspect of her life has played out in the media ... this is a very private decision. I wish her peace