The "brother & sister" option for those who cannot get an annulment

Yes, "frater-soror" is an option. But it also means accessing the sacraments in private.

You are a Catholic, but were not practicing your faith when you married a very nice divorced person — a person who has a previous marriage which is still valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church and which is still binding upon this person. When you married this divorced person, whose first spouse is still living, you had not been to Mass in years. But…