The Problems Facing The 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.

Most people do have that emotional feeling that they have abandoned their people and join strangers. This always occurs especially when the in-laws are against the intermarriage but the couple wants to be together. Conflict and bitterness arise as the two misunderstands one another. These may bring about long lasting damages and consequences to these relationships.

These type of marriages are not always fair to one partner. This is because one will need to change his religious status and join the partner. There is at all times a problem when one will be necessary to cope up with the faith of this other person. Later, the families involved comes to a reality that their child is going to convert and worship through another religion.

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.

At the initial stages of this relationships between the two partners, they may lack support from their friend or even family members because of the differences in the way of worship. That becomes a problem when the couple is married, and there arises an issue where the two do not trust each other anymore. The bond between the two becomes weaker with time which poses a major problem that will affect the partners for a long time.

Also, they have challenges understanding each other since their religion differ. Most people are always controlled by the laws and the rules of their religions. The case that the rules differ from one religion to another may bring about the issues where they cannot understand each other well just because one is not used to the regulations of other religions.

There are some situations which are inevitable in the life of these partners. The problem of religious belief sometimes may become irresolvable, many people cannot think outside what they have been taught from the time they were born hence they cannot be patient waiting for what they are not used to in life. Some may also face a challenge in accepting the difference between them and hence they forget about the love they had for one another.

When the time comes when the two will have reached a time where they will raise children, a problem will erupt on deciding what guidelines and religion will the child follow. This always becomes a problem and may end up bringing separation.




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