Before I begin, I kindly request that I do not receive any proselytizing of any kind.
Now, our relationship for the past (almost) year had been going very well. We are long distance which made some things difficult, but we managed. Much of our relationship revolved around intimacy over the phone and we did engage in phone sex and sexting sometimes. We had our disagreements with each other here and there but there was nothing that we couldn’t work out through healthy discussion.
Last night, however, my boyfriend told me that he couldn’t be with me. I asked why. He told me it was because he was a Jehovah Witness and I was an atheist.
He offered to teach me more about why he chose the path of the Witness. I tried to listen to him, but being the skeptical atheist I was, it was hard not to fight him at every point he gave me. Especially the fact that we had engaged in premarital phone sex and that went against his religious beliefs. It was a bit hypocritical that he would teach me his beliefs knowing full well he had strayed from them, but we both recognized our intimacy over the phone was hard to turn down. Regardless, I tried my best to listen to his viewpoint and ask a lot of questions along the way.
However my boyfriend felt that I was being hostile towards his beliefs. He felt that but questioning every opinion he had, I was attacking him. Granted, I could have been more accepting but I really thought I was just being inquisitive.
So far, it has only been the first day of us talking about what his experience as a Jehovah Witness is like, and already we are finding it hard to remain calm with each other. I promised him I would give him at least a week to fully explain everything before I made any sort of decision.
However I’m afraid. I’m afraid I already know the answer for myself. I don’t think I want to be a Jehovah Witness and frankly, I think I would be miserable as one. But at the same time, it’s the only way I can be in. a relationship with my boyfriend because he is unwilling to convert to atheism.
I need to know. Will I have to make the hard decision to leave him forever…?
TL;DR my boyfriend is a Jehovah Witness and I am an atheist. Our relationship is forbidden by the church. I need to either convert or abandon my boyfriend.
Submitted August 23, 2021 at 05:38AM by dragonais https://ift.tt/3gt7Ksp
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