I appreciate your remarks, and find them comforting. Thank you for the quick response. Ultimately, I accept differences in dogma, and can conform to the moment; but I feel like tradition is not allowing for personal history ( I suspect the Bride's household (in Sparta) is pushing for a brother to fill the slot) . . . and I am just this guy in the U.S.

Sigh, guess I won't rage against my friend.