Meding the Pieces

Man! has it ever been a stressful couple of days....(Heartbreak will do that to you). My girl and I just split up recently and It's been kind of hard to function lately. Breakups are extremely hard to cope with especially when the problem within the relationship is out of your control (not your typical Cheaters case) but when religion/and or race comes into play. these two factors are usually the most common issues being faced today and to be honest I think it's a bit silly. I get that religion is an important aspect in many peoples lives, it instills moral values and faith upon us to better ourselves as human beings (i guess in way it's life's rulebook for the soul). For me, I'm Christian, I believe in God, and Jesus, and the 10 commandments and such, however I stopped going to church along time ago....reasons being? I don't know, but despite that I don't think it changes the relationship i have with god, I pray almost everyday and continue to follow all of the moral practices (well I try). It may seem like i'm going off track but i'm getting to the main point....the problem most couples face is issues pertaining to interfaith relationships....Now i've done my fair amount of research and I still don't know for sure how interfaith marriages are and if theres a great success rate....but why wouldn't it be successful?
I mean does it really make sense to push love away for religion? people get so fixated on religion and i could never understand why, I mean i understand we all need something to believe in but I was talking to my cousin the other day and he said something that just put everything into perspective "When it comes to religion, it's not about the journey or the method, it's about the direction" which means it doesn't matter what religion you are and what your traditions are but about the direction in which those tradtions take you, and ultamatly the direction is the pathway to God or a supreme being of some kind. So why can't love be able to save an interfaith relationship? Beats the shit out of me! maybe it's because some people just don't have it in them to compromise, but that's part of what being in love is al about, if there's one thing i learned from my relationship it's that you live for two people as one entity, meaning that all decisions and life choices are to be shared amonsgt one another to come to a common ground and to live a fufilled and happy life together, no one should ever have to change or sacrafice for love....so with that said how is it that interfaith marriages/relationships can't work in a sense? I mean things would be alittle more complicated if I were to be marrying a satist or an athiest, that would definitely not end well, infact in would probably just end lol....but i mean if i were to be married to a jewish girl, hindu, budist etc, what is the problem? If i love this person it should be enough to carry the relationship and hopefully we'd be able to compromise with our religions out of respect and love for each other can i get an Amen lol. Most people argue that this becomes an issue in terms of raising children...but to be honest, I want my children to keep an opened mind, If i were to end up marrying someone of a different faith, i'd educate my children on both religions without forcing either or on them because at the end of the day regardless of the choice they make the main objective is for them to inherit the morals of becoming virtious and having some sort of belief that carries these traits throughout their lives.

Who knows maybe i'm wrong, maybe love just isn't enough anymore...
it's just sad to see that relationships can be tarnished over

I mean I'm no expert when it comes to love but I always assumed that love was universal, I mean God is love and loves all, so why are there so many retrictions made by us when it comes to religion?

That's definitely some Food for thought