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How interfaith couples handle family pressure about children

My spouse grew up evangelical and I grew up secular and we thought we'd figured out how to respect each other's differences until our parents started pressuring us about grandchildren and baptisms and church attendance. Now every family gathering becomes about our 'mixed' marriage and we don't know how to protect our relationship from everyone else's anxiety about our souls.

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External family expectations about religious practice threaten the delicate balance a couple has created in their interfaith relationship.

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