I'm not even a different religion to my family so I can't imagine what it's like for others who are!! I guess it's like everything else, people think they have a right to have an opinion on everything you do.

My family is Christian but they don't really go to church or anything (only on special days sometimes), they still consider themselves Christian though. I am Christian and I don't go to church either (can't find one around here where I feel comfortable ), but I try to live as a Christian in my daily life. I also have a few beliefs that are different to them, nothing major. For example, I choose not to eat pork. I don't see how this effects anyone else?? I wouldn't have even told them if it hadn't come up and they didn't keep pestering me about why I wouldn't have any bacon for breakfast one day. So now everyone in my family knows this but instead of just accepting it they're always trying to tell me to 'get over it' or 'don't be silly'. I've had comments like 'oh what she doesn't know won't hurt her' (when making food that has bacon in it or something).

Omg, I can't imagine what it's going to be like when I have kids. I'm scared about letting them stay over or anything because they will just try to undermine me and tell my kids I'm 'just being silly'.

What is their problem? Why do I have to conform to what they think I should do otherwise I am picked on? It's not fair. These are my beliefs, not something I just came up with one day to annoy them. Even if I talk about wanting to go to church or something they would roll their eyes or something and say 'oh, you're not into that stuff'. What? How would you know? And it's not a negative thing, it's a good thing!!

The reason this topic is coming up now is b/c there is a special/holy day coming up and I have family visiting me at the time. I don't know how I can possibly observe that day with them here and that's not fair.

How do other people deal with their family when they have different religious views to them?? Have you had any problems with family in the past over things like this??

Thanks for listening guys, good to get that out!! They make me so mad sometimes.