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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's very bad to have different religions between spouses[/quote]

Why? I've been happily married 20 years to a man of a different faith, and I still don't get this.[/quote]

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Are either of you religious or are you just culturally affiliated with the religion in which you were raised? I am not worried about the religious front because I am unusually nonreligious for a Brazilian. I am fine with my children being raised Jewish.[/quote]

[b]DH is "culturally" Jewish but agnostic. I'm a "fallen away" Catholic.[/b] We sparsely celebrate major holidays of both faiths, i.e., Chrismukkah. We have a Christmas tree and a Menorah, just like we have Easter baskets and a Passover Seder. He takes off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but that's about it. It works fine for us because during the rest of the year, [b]we like to keep it light.[/b] We know of organized faith groups that are friendly to interfaith couples, but we don't go because we're just not religious. It works for us, but also for many other couples we know.[/quote]

The arrival of a baby may change this approach.  For many people (including me; I'm the PP married to a Jewish man), the arrival of a baby shifts things, and makes a person want to rekindle connections to his/her roots.  I was a fallen away Catholic but when my son was born, it suddenly felt very important to me to have him baptized.  And I returned to church.  And have raised him as a Catholic.  I would never have predicted any of this 20 years ago.[/quote]

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