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I am not religious by any means but I do believe in god. I wasn’t raised catholic, but I call myself because my family is. I have always wanted a closer relationship with God. I speak to him out loud and in my mind. I thank him for my blessings, and overall I do feel love for him. I bought myself a Bible to try and study, but I must admit I haven’t really touched it. But I am trying to get right with him and to have my children have strong faith. My boyfriend and I have been together since 15. When I met him, i admired that he knew how to pray and believed in God. His family was religious. He was baptized, confirmed etc. (my mom just baptized me, not her fault as she too is trying to get confirmed and all that). I just really admired that about him. Here’s where I need advice. Recently his views have changed. He doesn’t believe in God anymore and the things that come out of his mouth are really just wow. I don’t want to get into it. I have told him that this is really making me change my views on him and if he really feels that way we are not going to last. But he laughs. What can I do? I don’t even know what to do. This hurts me. I ask myself privately if this really is a deal breaker and honestly it is. He doesn’t have to believe in God but just in something and he says “I believe in myself”. I’m like are you for real? That’s not funny you know what I mean. Anyone have anything to say? I’m really at loss
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I think that if you are uncomfortable with being with someone who in finding comfort in switching their views, maybe yu should look deeper in your own. I grew up religious and switched my views as I got older. Me and mine have different views but when we get to the core of our beliefs we have similar values. We fully respect each others views and perspectives even tho we dont agree with each other all the time If you are ready to give up on your relationship with someone who loves you because they chose to grow and find a view that works for them? Then you should just do it. In my opinion it shows how unforgiving and not understanding you are especially considering you dont even practice fully the religion you identify with. So perhaps you should be with someone more like you. What I would do is talk to him, not at him, and see what he does believe why and what it means to him. What are his values in his changing beliefs because that's what more important. Finding common ground and agreeing to disagree.

Conversations with God -Neale Donald Walsch AND there are many paths to the Truth/God/Goddess/Higher Consciousness/Whatever-Feels-Comfortable-Calling-Source

@Jasmine how unforgiving and not understanding I am? 😭 how does that show that? I tried to understand but he makes some comments that I’m like ok. No I’m not fully religious, I believe there is a god. My mom and her side of the family practiced light magic & spirituality & connecting with your higher self. We have been together for a good 8 years now, and I do love him. We have the same morals and values. But I tell him down the road if he continues with certain things he says that I don’t think it could work out, like I had stated before I don’t really want to get into what he says. But I don’t try to shove it down his throat or force anything onto him. Just that if I wear my cross necklace he laughs at it. Or he tells me to take it off. I bought a Bible and started to read it and he just tells me not to open it around him … stuff like that. It bothers HIM, and it bothers ME that it bothers HIM. I hope I cleared this up

Be Open minded. He may not be going about things the right way as far as his Reactions to you. But Search up the Bible and Where it really comes from and how it came about, and search up the meaning of the Cross.

Have you looked into couples counseling? Sounds like you are both trying to grow yourselves, and have both made some big changes in your spiritual goals so having a unbiased party may be helpful to see if you both have the same goals for your relationship still or if your paths are leading you different directions. Even for those we love very much we have to keep in mind we all walk our own path; some people only share our path a moment, some for a time, and some for a lifetime. It’s ok for the paths to separate, ok to grieve their parting, but you have to walk your own and they have to walk theirs.

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