Reina

When you had religious questions, did you ever ask them at home? If so, did you ever try talking religion with your father? And if the reply was something like we can go ask your mother most of the time--what about if she was gone for something? Did he just brush it off, answer it, tell you to wait, etc?

I am a Catholic and believe God is watching over me, family, friends etc. My ex-boyfriend is atheist. The reason we broke up before was religion. That was a year ago. We still talk all the time and have repeatedly talked about getting back together. However, I keep saying I want to get the religion issue figured out first. I can deal with him not believing the same as me as a friend and I think I could handle it as a spouse (he has said he could see us married at some point). However, we both want kids at some point and this is where it falls apart. He is willing to have children baptized and raised Catholic until they decide for themselves whether to believe in God or not. However, if this is the case, that leaves me with all the responsibility of teaching the religious beliefs. He has no problem with me going to church every week or anything like that so it isn't like he is trying to change my beliefs. I'm just not sure what to do. I realize in the end it is my decision and I can accept him as atheist, but I don't know if I could accept realistically being the only foundation of faith in an immediate family. (I did see another post with Catholic and atheists, but felt there were a lot of other issues involved in that one that made it seem not as useful for me.) Any one else have a situation at all similar to maybe offer some advice?