Thank you for the comments friends ♥️ And for the articles and book recommendations!

Thank you @HaveHope I feel a huge sense of relief. Even though like @Amanda said a relationship can work as long as the two individuals are willing committed participants, I think our foundations are built differently. I respect him so much and besides beliefs he is a very sweet person but I haven’t met his family or his friends, or his community and I know it’s just going to overwhelm me (especially because I’m a woman marrying a Muslim man so they are inclined to assume stronger authority about how we end up living).