Atheist With a Christian spouse

[dorkzilla]

60. Thanks, Hekate, but I don't think I'm as wise as I am blunt (its the NYer in me)

My case was much more cut and dry...it sounds like Spartacus started off married life as, at the very least, a lip service Catholic, and I am sure Mrs. Spartacus thought they'd carry on like that forever, just as doubtless her parents and his parents had. I TOLD my husband more than once that I didn't believe in any "god" and indeed the only faith I had was in myself. My husband knew what was coming eventually and repeatedly said, as to my agnosticism and my refusal to have biological children, that he would "change my mind" in spite of the fact that I am the very antitheses of a shrinking violet.

For the record, my inner skeptic also tells me he wanted to marry me because my parents are LOADED and I stand to inherit a vast fortune. That was certainly hubby #2's motivation (in his defense he has a bad case of NPD, and thought he "deserved" it). I currently live with my boyfriend of 6 years. I hid my parent's wealth from him for 2 years. The giveaway was when he met Dad for the first time; we met for dinner, and Dad was accompanied by his pilot and co-pilot so the jig was up. In spite of that, my darling knows that (a) I am a hardworking SOB and (b) as fortunes are lost overnight, I don't rely on my inheritance, nor should he. He's a hardworking software architect and a very talented jazz musician, the nerd of my dreams. We are blue collar (as I was raised) through and through. When my parents fly their private jet into NY, my blue collar software geek jazz guitarist nerd takes THEM out for dinner.

Sorry--I know that has nothing to do with the topic at hand!!! I digress!!!