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Dates and Dating - The Other Type

Feb 09, 2010 15:38

How important are compatible beliefs and practices in finding a partner? Would you consider a relationship with someone of a vastly different belief system from you? What about dating?

How different would someone's beliefs and/or practices have to be to become unacceptable to you in a relationship?

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ravensong February 10 2010, 14:24:31 UTC

Well me and my sweetie are both pagan (well, pantheists if you wanna get down to it) so we're good there. But in general I think really as long as you respect each other's beliefs a relationship would work fine if you had differing religions or spiritual traditions.

That being so though, I'm not sure I myself could pull off being with a Christian. I tried that once and even though the person was open and appeared to be supportive of my beliefs at first, it went the other way after awhile :( Not the entire reason we broke up but a good part of it...

mellifluous_ink February 23 2010, 09:40:38 UTC

I'm actually very shy about my beliefs, and unaccustomed to having any belief system in general. Of late I've had so many problems with day to day life that I have little thought to spare to spiritual matters that do not involve the 'day-to-day' bits of my belief system (the gods are all well and good, but they don't tell me how to live--the Tao, however, does). Even then it's difficult, with all the... well, anyway ( ... )