It’s critical you don’t get carried away by your emotions.

When you are too stuck on how gleeful a guy makes you feel, you won’t see past your emotions for a while.

He makes you feel so joyful that you tell yourself that it doesn’t matter that he practices a different religion.

The innate belief is that love conquers all.

No, it doesn’t.

A person that you are looking to date for the long term is someone that you are spending a large share of your life with.

He is the person you are waking up to.

Love isn’t enough to conquer the challenges that accompany a serious relationship with someone of a different religion.

Someone with a different religion has a different background than you do.

Assuming that he has been faithful to his religion, his life identity has been shaped by his religion.

His family practices the religion and so do his friends.

This instantly puts you at odds with all the people that he loves in his social circle.

This alone is a considerable obstacle.

When you are socializing with people in his social circle, you struggle to connect with them, given how different you look at the world in comparison to them.

This means that they aren’t bonding with you.

Without bonding, they are less likely to be accepting of you.

This creates tension.

He worries about bringing you around them, knowing that you are struggling to connect with them.

The last thing he wants is to put you in a compromising position, where you are visibly uneasy being around them, and they you.

This means that he is consciously keeping you from having to deal with the awkwardness of being around the people that are in his social circle.

All of sudden, it feels as though he is being pulled in two different directions.

His social circle is pulling him in one direction, and you are pulling him in the opposite.

All on account of the fact that you have struggled to connect with his social circle based on religion.

This isolates the two of you from everyone else.

At first, it’s easy to get lost in a mindset that the love you share for each other conquers all obstacles.

This only lasts for so long.

There comes a time where the love isn’t enough.

He is exhausted with having to play each side.

He thinks it has been far too much of a hassle to appease you and those in his social circle.

Sooner or later, he is exasperated and wants to alleviate the stress he has been denying that he has been feeling for the last few months.

This is when it gets easier to get into needless fights with each other over innocuous incidents.

He leaves the seat up one day and you become irate, spewing a bunch of expletives as you yell at him.

You forget to pick up some clothing you left on the floor one day, and he screams at you as though you have committed the greatest sin.

The fights over innocuous incidents build up to bigger fights.

Before you know it, you are breaking up with each other, then making up.

The cycle of breaking up and making up unfolds over time.

With each breakup, the bond of love is weakened, like a dam being perforated with holes.

Family members and friends on either side take advantage of these breakups, tugging you further away from each other.

Eventually, the dam bursts and there is no saving the relationship.

There are a few circumstances where dating someone of a different religion works.

A circumstance where neither party is pious, and have no intent to ever take their religions seriously.

A circumstance where one party is ready to assume the other party’s religion.

A circumstance where either party decides to denounce their individual religions and become agnostic, or choose to assume a totally different religion.