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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, you got to hand it to him for being clear upfront.

But what he's saying is "My way or the highway."  Which is not really very nice.[/quote]

Well, he's laying down a pretty big dealbreaker, that's for sure.  My big concern would be that she would be expected to be secondary in ways other than religion - that his family's tradition, histories, and lore would always be more important than hers, aside from religion.  I would want to make clear, if I were her, that the kids were still going to celebrate Christmas with their other grandparents.  I would not allow myself to be completely subsumed.  Although she can convert and agree to raise the children Jewish, she cannot erase her whole family and history.  [/quote]

But that's exactly what's going on.

The whole thing makes no sense. If religion X is soooooo terribly important to him, why date people outside religion X?

Is it some ego trip? Or some hidden way to proselitize?[/quote]

I'll go with ego trip -- bending someone completely to your will.  Informing them that they must leave anything behind that conflicts in any way with the demands of their spouse's religion.  I wouldn't expect religious conversion to be the end of the demands, if the Jewish spouse does not even allow his children to celebrate a secular Christmas with their Christian grandparents.[/quote]

So sexist, as pointed out by OP. Women can make their own choices including concluding traditions of the grandparents (e.g., rampant materialism of “secular Christmas”) are not want they want to impart to their children. [/quote]

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