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Interesting - and a big outlier in my experience. Question that would make you a non-outlier: are you or your partner very religious?
by randomsearch 6y ago
Interesting - and a big outlier in my experience.
Question that would make you a non-outlier: are you or your partner very religious?
- Ancapistani 6y agoGood question. I would say "No... but actually yes." I know, not helpful. My wife and I are strong Christians, without question, but in a lot of ways we're not "traditional" Christians. I was raised Catholic but fell away from the Church when it was apparent how difficult it was going to be to have my marriage recognized by them. It just didn't matter enough to me to be worried about it. I'll have to think about this more before really being able to speak on it in detail, but I think "religiosity" in our case is more of correlation than causation.
- randomsearch 6y agoI asked because childhood sweethearts don't usually work out - people change too much in their 20s, I think. The exceptions tend to be strongly devout Christians. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it's the support from their church community? There's a certain amount of peer pressure, but also genuine cheerleading going on there. I was brought up Christian and I do think the community side of church-going can be a net positive for many people.