(November 30, 2015 at 5:40 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: When looking to be in a relationship, is the other person being a practicing/faithful Christian an automatic deal breaker for you?
It depends on the individual. If their sole pupose in wanting to date me is to try and convert me, then I'm out. If we can each respect one another's opinions on religion and are capable of having a strong relationship outside of the boundaries that religioin presents, then I would strongly consider it.
If they were an absolute devout bible thumping, street preaching person, I'm out of there on that too.
I have friends who are religious. We have debates about religion. We are still friends at the end of the day. If the person I'm dating wants to be in a long term, more serious relationship that may lead to marriage, we would need to sit down and discuss things that will come up in the future that religion may play a role in. Examples of that would be:
1. children (if I were younger and still wanted more), I would strongly be against indoctrination and would want any future children to be fully educated at the appropriate age and time, so that they could make up their own minds about whether to believe in a god or not.
2. finances - would my partner's religious views on this deter me from combining finances?
3. our roles within the family dynamic - would he want me to "obey" him and revere him as the dominant partner or would he be happy with being an equal partner.
I'm sure there are more examples, but that's all I can come up with right now.
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