The Challenges Of Jewish Interfaith Marriage

By Jerry Baker


Most people prefer marrying other individuals from different faiths. This has brought to the rise in the number of intermarriages between the religious groups available in the world. At some stages, people become friends, and in the course of the friendship, they start to develop some feelings towards each other. They end up loving each other, and there is a need for doing a wedding. However, Jewish interfaith marriage has got some problems that affect the partners.

After marrying from another religious group, most people develop the feeling that they have betrayed their religion and abandoned it. This feeling always occurs when the family members from both parties are against the issue of their children marrying. Later, there will arise some sorts of misunderstanding that may affect the relationship of the two for a very long time.

One partner is usually treated unfairly since the marriage will involve one person leaving his faith and ends up joining another religion. There comes a time when reality strikes the members of his family that their child will no longer be worshiping from the same belief as he and here a problem arises. The partner will have many difficulties coping up with the other faith.

Since the social and economic relationships differ from one place to another, the newly wedded will face a challenge with this more so if they married from different countries. The patterns can be affected by the change in upward mobility frequently in the education sector of the place they were born. That will bring a lot of problem to the couple when settling down in that particular region all over their lifetime.

The partners may also lack support from their friends and families in the initial period of their friendship due to the fact that they are from different religion. These can bring a problem with trust issues among them later that will destroy the strength of their relationship. Therefore, it is good if they take time so that they can understand each other fully and have that confidence to introduce themselves to their families so as to avoid this type of problem.

In any religion, some rules guide the life of its worshippers that changes from one religion to the other. Since the time people were young, they were used to this regulation hence changing them when they are used to them becomes a big problem that may bring about the confusion between the couple. That is always a threat to the relationship of the pair.

When one person is fond of doing such things, they end up becoming used to it such that they cannot think outside the box. These bring a lot of problems when the patience of another partner is lowered due to the fact they have failed to accept and understand the difference that lies in between their lives.

After sometimes, the two may wind up having children. This will be a big problem because they may fail to decide on which religion will they worshiped and brought up using it. This will also bring rise to conflicts between the duo.




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