Three hurdles you can overcome to start praying together.
First off, I want you to know that there are LOTS of Catholic couples who pray together more often, more deliberately, and probably more effectively than we do. As in LOTS. And they amaze and inspire me. And then, there's us. I think Bob and I are just like a lot of Catholic couples. Neither of us has a theology degree. Neither of us are more "holy" than anybody else (in fact, much less). But we love our faith, go to Mass every Sunday, and attend daily Mass when we can. We each do what we can to grow in our faith - things like the daily Mass readings, spiritual reading, some online articles we find helpful in living our faith, etc. We just try to be as well rounded in our faith as we can be. Praying together didn't exactly come naturally. We were years into our marriage, and we had been on the winding (and sometimes bumpy) road that led us to the Church. Some time after I became Catholic we were going through a bout of tough "life" things that felt pretty