Marrying someone of different religion and culture

i guess i have figured something out from what you said. Love is in every religion and in every culture. if we truly love each other and are not just "in love", then that Love would be our uniting factor which will prevail against these untying factors. ( religion and culture can untie us from each other, right?) :)

Religion and culture CAN untie us yes; but true love and true committment to the betterment of each other WILL overcome! The challenge does not always come from the two in love that are different in these ways; it is generally opposition from those around us that casue the problems unfortunately. Love is love and knows NO religion, no caste and no culture; yet many of the more rigid people in society are hell bent on ensuring that we are all as similar in faith and culture as is humanly possible. The key for any intercultural or inter-religion marriage is to gain acceptance not just from the respective families but from society as a whole in some countries. It is a sad and very small minded attitude in my opinion for people to be this way but they are what they are. ESPECIALLY when it comes to religion. All I am ultimately trying to say is that as long as you have full trust, committment, support in each other, you will gain strength from each other and these barriers WILL eventually fall.....

You are absolutely right! But i thank God that my husband's family is so wonderful and nice to me. My mother in law is an amazing mom. I guess this is also one factor that affects marriage - the inlaws. It is really a blessing to have good in-laws. :)

Thank you Vidhya. It's true that inter religious marriage is not easy but it could be both a learning experience for both parties and very challenging too.