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MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
3. Well
Thu May 31, 2018, 10:50 AM
May 2018

It took a long while for my then-wife (I am a twice widower) to accept my son's Irish Catholic wife, although she eventually did.

Interestingly, said daughter-in-law, AFTER being accepted into the family, had an Orthodox conversion. She originally had no intent to convert.

Whereupon HER parents stopped talking to her (for a while).

Fortunately, I've got lots of red-haired grandchildren from that branch, which healed all wounds.

Religion is a big deal, and I tend to agree people of different religions (who take said religion as truth) should not inter-marry. It causes a lot of problems. In our family's case, it all worked out. But there were lots of issues along the way.

Marriage is pretty complicated, as it is.

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