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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If not, does it cause any issues?

Could you imagine a marriage with different faiths working?[/quote]

Interfaith marriage here, going on 28 years.  We did an interfaith class (10 weeks, with other interfaith couples) before we got married.  Instructor said atheist and Catholic were the most challenging matches (that's not us), but every week we talked about a different issue - birth, death, etc.  Didn't matter what the topic, our class kept bringing it back to raising the kids.

Ours are now young adults, raised in mom's religion, one kid active in the religion, one kid not.  I suspect that one will accept whatever religion their future spouse feels is important, if any.

It's sometimes messy (visiting partners parents and having to attend their religious services), or when it's a major holiday for one but not the other.  That was tougher when the kids were younger, not so much any more.  Perhaps it will get messy again as we age amd get closer to death.  And, it's caused a lot of extra work and time, that wouldn't have been necessary if we were the same religion.  But it hasn't been unmanageable, and, you can't help who you fall in love with[/quote]

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