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When friends judge your cross-cultural relationship choices

Our friend group has watched me and David navigate our interfaith relationship for three years, and now that we're getting serious, some friends are pulling back because they think I'm 'abandoning my roots' while others are being weird about his religion, and we don't know how to address it without losing people we care about.

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