How Do I Tell My Jewish Parents I’m Converting?
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How do I approach my Jewish parents about converting to Catholicism?
How do I approach my Jewish parents about converting to Catholicism without ruining our relationship?
Ooh, I don't know if you have that kind of power. Tell me about it.
Recently, I've kind of separated myself from the synagogue I was a part of for many different reasons.
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Hi, Dr. John. How are you?
I'm great. How are you?
I am good. I'm glad to be talking to you.
I'm glad to be talking to you. That's awesome.
So I was going to ask you, how do I approach my Jewish parents about converting to Catholicism without ruining our relationship?
Ooh, I don't know if you have that kind of power. Tell me about it.
So recently, I've kind of separated myself from... the synagogue I was a part of, um, for many different reasons. And, um, I've did, my husband is, it was raised Catholic. Um, so I've decided, um, that I would like to convert and be a part of the church with him. And we would also like to get our kids baptized. So that's another part of the that's probably going to break my parents' hearts as well.
Are your parents practicing or are they just culturally Jewish?
It's more of like a cultural Jewish.
Okay. All right. So I guess what I would tell you is you know your parents better than anybody and you already walking in the door think you're going to break their heart. Are you pretty confident in that or is that just if you're talking?
I think in front of me, at least with my mom, I think she'll be supportive and then she'll leave and be heartbroken.
Will she be heartbroken because she's going to lose... I'm like abandoning the way they raised me. Yeah, as an indictment on their values and character versus, no, no, no, no, I'm grateful for the foundation you gave me. here's the next evolution for me. Or is she going to be upset that she's going to have to go back to her brunch and tell the women that she has brunch with, you're not going to believe what my daughter did. And they're going to think badly about her.
No, I don't think it's that because it's really not, like just because they're not practicing. I think it's more of like an abandonment.
So could it be that one of the values they gave you growing up was one of intellectual curiosity or always asking hard questions or not being scared of hard questions. Is that fair?
Yeah.
How was their marriage growing up?
It was good. I mean, at least in front of me, it was good. I've only like witnessed them yelling at each other. Like, Less than a handful of times in my entire life.
Okay. Yeah, they're a good East Coast family, right? There's some yelling. It's just, you know, I used to think all yelling was bad until I, yeah. There's some good East Coast families that love, love, love each other. They just talk louder. That's all. They just communicate with more vigor.
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