My partner [22M] refuses to take no for an answer. I [22F] have never been religious because I didnt grow up going to church every Sunday. My partner grew up going to church and his family is very involved in their community. However, he says that he's not super religious and simply finds studying religious beliefs interesting. He simply has to go to church all the time because of his mom and because he helps run the electronic stuff. For context, we live in the South in a smallish rural town that is heavily Christian (it's the southern US, after all, what do you expect?). His family is apprently adamant about me attending church with them and bothers him all the time about it. I can believe that, even though they've never bothered me about directly. He is constantly pleading me to go to church. We've been dating for just over a year, so I eventually gave in. I don't hate religion or church, to be clear. But going into a social situation where i know almost nobody and know very little about the main topic of discussion? Not my idea of comfortable. Whatever, i went and i went home with a migraine from their loud ass speakers. Not an encouraging experience but not as bad as i expected. I told him i wasnt interested in attending again, but he continues to insist. He says that it's important to him that I'm willing to do things that i dont want to so for his sake. He says that he would do the same for me, but obviously he doesn't want to tell his family "no" for me. I agreed to go again today (with a bribe of coffee).
What do i do? Is this a big red flag that he's not going to listen to what i want in the future, or am i making a big deal out of nothing? Am i being difficult and putting him in an awkward postition for no reason?
TLDR: Boyfriend [22M] of 1 year trying to guilt me [22F] into going to Church with his family - is pushing the issue after being told "no thank you" a red flag?
Submitted November 07, 2021 at 05:28AM by These_Boysenberry385 https://ift.tt/3wsb51Q
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