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Vice President JD Vance thrust the deeply sensitive challenges facing interfaith couples into the spotlight when he told a packed college arena that he hopes his Hindu wife would someday convert to Christianity.
Experts who have counseled hundreds of couples who don't share religious beliefs agree that pressuring or even hoping a partner would convert could prove damaging to a relationship.
Instead, the key is respect for each other’s faith traditions and having honest discussions about how to raise their children.
“To respect your partner and everything they bring to the marriage — every part of their identity — is integral to the kind of honesty that you need to have in a marriage,” said Susan Katz Miller, author of the book “Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family.”
“Having secret agendas is not usually going to lead to success.”
Vance, who converted to Catholi
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