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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]

You're probably right.[/quote]

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