will difference of religion be of an issue to a couples relationship?

When love is strong enough, the connection between a couple can bridge their different believes, I think :-) Last year, in Italy, a sister received a message from a young man. He sent the message to the wrong number. But no problem, they started messaging each other and became friends and finally the sister walked out from her world and got married with this young man. That was really romantic.

In many countries in the world, yes this is a big issue, though it is sooo sad. i hate to believe that two people who love each other and are happy together have to sacrifice their relationship because they are born in 2 diff religions. i do not agree with this at all. I think it is real sad. Though yes in a joint family it makes a diff as there are so many festivals celebrated which becomes an issue in families when it comes to diff religions.

Hello,Princess! Relationship develops between a girl and a boy from understanding and faith and in such circumstance religion can't be a bar to unit them in a marriage,after all both are human beings and opposite genders..There are so many instances around the world.thanx.

As long as there is love and understanding between the two I dont think religion is a major issue. I have had an inter religion marriage and in our twelve years of marriage we did not have any issues on religion. We both respected each others customs and took part in festivals celebrated by both the families. We would both go to the church and the temple together. Our kids too celebrate both our festivals!

Relationship is such an sacred one that at least the religion has place to play any role in it to be established. When two souls admit to to be together there is nothing stop them. I mean the religion should not come in the way of real love and affections. These are the emotions of the partners to be together and the religion or cast ism lost its importance.

I believe that relgion will only become a problem if you allow it to. As long as you respect the other persons beliefs then there should be no problem. After all, as you said we all worship the same God in the end. My husband is Hindu and I am a Christian. Although these two religions are very diiferent we have never had a problem with it.

well, i come from a mixed religion parents and it has been the stem of our dysfunctional family. so i believe as the bible says that it should be of the same faith and beliefs. and that the wife should submit to the husband and that husban will not treat the wife above or lower than him but a helpmate and must cherish her. in her in return, because of her faithfulness, she would considered a rare treasure in the eyes of man. hehehe... hope this answers how i feel about this topic. happy mylotting.... and miss you dear friend...

I think it depends on the religion and how the person feels about their religion. If they are tolerant of other religions then their would not be a problem and I would think that it they are seeing someone of a different religion then they probably are tolerant. However, problems could come from the families of the couple. I have heard of religions that punish people for trying to marry someone of a different faith. They insist that the person must convert before they can marry. Religions like Buddhism for instance are completely tolerant and have also accepted other people's right to follow whatever faith the choose. I have heard that Islam, Christianity and Judaism are not so tolerant. In fact they even have problems with other sects of the same religion, like Catholics being intolerant of non Catholic Christians. I am not sure about Islam in every country but I did hear about problems in some countries where Islamic followers were punished if they married non Islamic people. I do not see it as a problem within the relationship. The problem comes from the religion they follow and the culture that the people come from. This is especially true of religions that regard themselves as the only "right" religion and there are lots of those. Tolerance can be hard to find sometimes.

Yes, it will have.. If you have one that is into God and the other whom is not.. This will cause some kind of friction.. But, if they both want it to work, they must put God first in their relationship..

me and my boyfriend are not in the same religion, it is not a big deal anyway because He decided to stick with my religion. So we dont have any problem to deal with. But i witness some of my friends having a problem with that. Like my cousin, she belong to a born again group and his husband belong to a seventh day adventist. When they became parents they were arguing on where to baptist their child. so to avoid quarelling they decided to baptize their child in roman catholic. So there were 3 religion in one family. Seventh day adventist for a father, born again christian for a mother and roman catholic for their child...lolz

I suppose it depends how much a part of their lives their religion is. For me, my beliefs ARE my life. It wouldn't be about "oh what holidays should we celebrate?" or deciding what to do on Sundays. It would determine every minute of every day, and more importantly, would the person I love be with me FOREVER... not just in this life. So, though I respect others who make the 2 religion thing work (and it CAN for them! It all depends on what religion is to them!) *I* can't do it. On the other hand, my cousin/best friend always have fun little jokes about it. He is a FAIRLY firm Catholic... SHE (my cousin) was raised Mormon, like me.

My sister and my brother-in-law belong to two religious faith, but this did not prevent them from working it out. The couple should work a compromise and meet at the middle.. that is what true love is all about...acceptance, tolerance and compromise... If you truly love a person, you'll love him for all the he is and all that he is not. Religion should not come into the picture or anything else. Good luck and all the best.

religion is what we belive in, which in religion did teach us to love each other, as long the trust, belive, honesty and respect to other religions grow together i'm sure even love between diffrent religion can be as one. And u will be sorrounded by love, love is everywhere

In my opinion it does matter if you have different religion/beliefs. For if you really want to have a happy family you should start with the spirituality. A family that prays together stays together is one true line for if you dont believe in one God then everything will fall apart. Some might say that love is all that matters for a relationship to work out. I definitely must say it really depends for Love is God and if you dont love Him and make Him the center of both of your life then who would lead you to the right path?

We are humans first and affiliates later. That is my motto. I am Muslim and my wife is Christian Roam Catholic. We have stood by that motto ans do respect our respective religious standing. It is very possible to have a successful relationship regardless of the difference in religious affiliation as long as the two people do understand what they are in the relationship for. We are in it for each other and our religions have nothing to do with it. Besides, salvation of an individual is between the person and his God.

It does matter a lot to me. FOr me its the foundation of a relationship. You cant have one direction if you both think differently. Maybe at first there wont be any problem but later on it will really show and I know it will really affect the relationship. Its nice to have the same religion for me coz it is one of the important ingredients tat i pray for the person I want to grow old with.

it should not.. well i have a classmate in college who was having that problem.. well they broke up for sometime because of some disagreement with their religion.. but happy enough they are back together now and make some compromises and adjustments.. they meet halfway.. and didnt make the religion stop themselves from loving each other.. they still have different religion but they are happy with each other..

Hiiiiii No itz not at al an issue if itz a love marriage because they are not kids na?To say that they donno the problems they are gonna face.we have only one life and we have to plan in such a way it does not affect or hurt anyone.For a happy family life its not important that which GOD we are praying.Itz important that what we are praying..Well,ofcourse they will anywayz pray for the welfare of their family only na?Then why does they should make religion an issue?

I think this not a problem if both are open minded and that religion is not really an obstacle in a relationship. You are best served by your faith and not by your religion. Whatever it is we worship only one God, that God might be of different meaning. Different religion, is also like saying your going to marry a person of different race, you'll see there's no bigger differences only the culture and tradition but one must learn to accept. Acceptance is just the key strength in every relationship. My cousin just got married a couple of weeks ago and her husband is of different religion with hers but the bottom line is they're happy now and starting to build their family.

Yes definitely. Especially if you are very serious about marriage. What religon will your kids decide to become. You guys will always get into fight.