She doesn’t have a husband, so we just solved why she doesn’t know how to America properly.

Congratulations! I hope the next 32 weeks are by the book boring, your labor is as quick and painless as possible, and your baby is as perfect as they come.

Also, they’re only matching people on this show with other people who signed up to be on this show. It’s not like they’re finding the best match in the general population. I feel like if you’re willing to be on this kind of reality show, you’re a certain kind of person who may not be cut out for the long-haul work of…

No, I didn’t feel shamed! We’re cool. It reminded me that in my entire education, we spent probably 2 weeks on the history/geography of all of the Asian continent, which is horrible. Where we spent multiple weeks of multiple years making sure to know exactly what happened with Rome.

Yes! Shame on me for forgetting them, and also shame on my local school district for never covering them because I know very little about their history.

I am fascinated by the idea that “Western Civilization” encompasses all of human history. The earliest my Western Civ classes ever went back was like Julius Caesar, but that doesn’t mean that’s where the world started. Most of them would start with the explorers or the Renaissance. What about the Greeks, the…

Jon Stewart said something after this all came out originally - it was like, “there are only two ways to react to walking in on that - you either go over stop it and call the police OR you call the police and then go over to to stop it. That’s it."

When we learned about the case in middle school, the entire lesson was, “interracial marriage was illegal until the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.” I literally thought it was called that because Virginia was arguing against people loving each other until I was far too old.

It is a great story, but in a “glad it didn’t happen to me” kind of way, haha.

Yes! I really felt like that is a good tool to start conversations you need to have to have a successful relationship anyway, and we found it very helpful, even though we actually matched on almost all of our answers.

The very first fight my husband and I ever had was in a Wendy’s. We’d been dating for a couple months. We ordered whatever burgers. I got a large fries. He got a medium fries.

That’s surprising, since they’d also need to update your records once the wedding happens. My old boss was supposed to be in a wedding that was called off a week before because the groom, thinking since he was across the country and would never be found out, told the priest he had never been married before but then…

The worst part about ours was that the couples running our precana literally couldn’t stop giggling during the “intimacy” portion of the class. Like, it was offensive. You don’t get to pretend to have the moral authority to lecture other adults on how to have sex if you can’t keep a straight face about it.

If you’re getting married in the church and you’re Catholic, they pull your baptismal records, which are updated with any other sacraments you receive, including marriage. You can neglect to mention it but they’ll still find out (at least if your first marriage was also in the church).

My good Catholic grandma had 3 kids in the 4 years after she got married, and then had 3 more spaced over the next 9 years.

When I was 12, my cousin was born and my aunt wanted me to be his godmother. She waited to have him baptized until after I got confirmed (happened about 3 months after he was born). Technically, the rule is you have to be in good standing (check), have all 3 sacraments of initiation (checked that off before the…

Off topic: I’ve never been like super patriotic and into the flag or whatever. But I have NEVER understood the overlap of people OBSESSED with respecting the American flag and people who find it appropriate to wear American flag decorated gear. I don’t really care either way, but it sort of seems a little…

Til death do us part - that’s ok.

Six months isn’t blanket required (though I’ve heard varying lengths from different parishes) - we just had to take the FOCCUS and attend a one day seminar where no one individually spoke to us, just addressed all 15 couples at once.

I live in the Philadelphia archdiocese, and the parish I grew up in wouldn’t have had enough volunteers to run more than one Mass a week if they weren’t allowed to have divorced-and-remarried Catholics do readings or hand out communion, etc. The most active people in our parish were divorced without annulments.