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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by fille_francaise: [QB] This is an issue I am currently dealing with. I want to know if there are others that have the same... predicament, so to speak. I apologize in advance if this is supposed to be in another place. Right now, I'm having to deal with my parent's opinion [mostly, my father's] of my boyfriend having buddhist beliefs. I keep my relationship with God private & I treat it very delicately. Upon meeting my boyfriend, I had never dated anyone outside of my own religion. It's not that I never wanted to, but that most of the people that hung around with shared the same beliefs as I did. I fell in love with my boyfriend for his mind, not his beliefs. This hasn't stopped us from loving each other & having a good relationship. In fact, our beliefs -- morals, standards, goals, spirituality -- are very much similar & his faith in God in his own way inspires me to have more faith myself. I respect him wholeheartedly for the way he thinks, as he does with me. We have no problem with his being a "buddhist" & my being a "christian." The problems we are facing are the opinions of others, preferrably my father. He believes that it's unnecessary & wrong for me to date my boyfriend because of the differences in our beliefs. He thinks we'll encounter problems along the way & simply cannot agree with our decision to continue to be together. We spent most of the night arguing about it. Although the simplest answer to this problem is to continue to maintain a relationship with my boyfriend, regardless of other's opinions [I am an adult, afterall], it's not easy when there is such strong opposition coming from a very important person in your family. I was just curious to know how other's feel about it. I know some are completely against interfaith relationships while others find a common ground somehow. I also want to know: when did things like religion, sexual preference, & certain morals make more of ruckus than the biggest picture, which is genuine love & compatibility in a relationship? That to me is much more important. & why must there be such a big issue surrounding this? I guess the answer is obvious; but why must it be this way? Sorry; this is sort of a venting session on my part. ;/ Again, if this is in the wrong place, or if this is a presumptuous topic to get on, excuse me. :] [/QB][/QUOTE]

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