00:00You have to choose your own happiness because it's very possible your parents will never
00:05think anyone is enough.
00:07I've started seeing someone seriously who's outside my religion and I'm scared to tell
00:11my family.
00:11He feels like the one, but my family expects me to marry within our faith.
00:15How do I choose between their expectations and my own happiness?
00:19This is very, very difficult.
00:21I do think that if you've been dating and you are not of the same faith, you have to
00:26introduce your partner to your family way before it gets to the point where she wants
00:31to get married.
00:32And they have to know that they are of a different faith and they're willing to compromise on
00:39certain things after you are in a marriage, whether you're going to raise the children
00:43in one faith or the other faith.
00:44But all those things should be put out and the parents themselves have to be willing to
00:49accept it.
00:50In many cases, they don't.
00:51I think you have to choose your own happiness because it's very possible your parents will
00:57never think anyone is enough.
00:59And you don't want to, I don't know, have given up on a good person or waste time or
01:03whatever it is.
01:04Would you change your faith for someone you love?
01:06I wouldn't.
01:08Yeah, I'm a very strong believer that somebody who could have a wonderful man who's Catholic
01:13or Protestant or Muslim and marry a Jewish person or whatever if they both respect each other's
01:19faith.
01:19I'm culturally Jewish and it's so important to our family and to me.
01:24I would not change my faith for someone.
01:27But let's say I fell in love with someone who was of a different faith, I would try to
01:31integrate both things in my life.
01:33But if I was someone who didn't have any affiliation, then I would easily take on someone else's.
01:37Exactly.
01:37We know so many people who have and they have wonderful, wonderful marriages with that.
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