<p>xania, very glad it went well. How interesting that your DH, who you said has lots of family secrets, will be the only one in your family who doesn’t know that his children know. Another secret.</p>
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<p>The Catholic church tends to complicate a lot of people’s lives. </p>
<p>My divorced father-in-law, who was Jewish, got married for the second time, while he was in his 50s, to a Catholic widow. His first marriage had been a Jewish ceremony, and annulling that marriage was out of the question – it had produced two children. </p>
<p>The new couple was married in a civil ceremony, which at least one member of the Catholic side of the family refused to attend – not because the new husband was Jewish but because he was divorced. </p>
<p>Several years later, my father-in-law’s former wife died. Because of this, in the eyes of the Catholic church, he had become a widower. Thus, he could marry in a religious ceremony, and shortly thereafter, he and his second wife went through a second wedding ceremony, privately, with a priest.</p>
<p>D remembered something interesting when we were talking. Apparently, in 5th grade, they were doing something about families and the students had to write their mother’s maiden name. She didn’t know mine, which the teacher found strange. I guess D wasn’t too concerned about it, since she didn’t bring it up at home at that time.</p>