How To Celebrate the Holidays in an Interfaith Marriage

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Honoring two religious traditions can be a delicate balancing act. Stay on an even keel with these tips.

To complete this How-To you will need:

List of holiday rituals
Open-mindedness
Compromises
A gift-giving plan
New traditions

Step 1: Make a list

Make a list of the holiday rituals that are important to you and ask your spouse to do the same. Then find a quiet, relaxed time to discuss how you can both preserve your traditions.

Tip: Look at the bright side: Each spouse gets to spend their holidays with their respective family, rather than alternating every year or running around trying to visit everyone.

Step 2: Be open-minded

If you find yourself balking at one of your spouse's requests, think of it as helping a loved one celebrate any other big occasion in their life, like a birthday: The celebration is about them, not you. You are not betraying your own religion by respecting your spouse's.

Step 3: Be supportive

If you agree to observe one of your spouse's traditions, be gracious about it.

Step 4: Compromise

Consider compromising on the less significant parts of the holidays, like deciding to keep decorations religion-neutral.

Step 5: Decide on gift-giving

Agree on a gift-giving plan. Will you exchange gifts on both holidays? Should you alternate years regarding which holiday will involve gifts? If you have children, will they get presents for both occasions? What about your extended families?

Tip: If you're giving children gifts for both holidays, spend the same amount of money for both occasions. Otherwise, you send the message that one holiday is more important than the other.

Step 6: Create new traditions

Create your own family traditions that combine the best of both your beliefs.

Step 7: Stay flexible

Be willing to make adjustments as the years go by and circumstances change.

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[dafranx]

Interfaith is cool, like interracial. This is lovely for people of different faiths to love each other.