. The problem is not that she thinks I don’t love her, and I DID tell her I respect that she believes something other than what I believe, but that she wants me to belong to an organized religion.
Any organized (Christian?) religion or Catholicism specifically?
My mother pitched a similar fit when I stopped being Christian. She originally insisted I attend church anyway. She later relented and told me I didn’t have to go to church if I agreed to look into other religions (I was 12, so she had more power to mandate stuff like that.) It worked out okay.
I think she needed to know I wasn’t lost in a moralless void, and eventually she could see that I still cared about ethics, other people, etc.
Any organized (Christian?) religion or Catholicism specifically?
Catholicism, specifically. Mainly, she believes that everyone needs god, otherwise they’ll lead empty lives.
My mother pitched a similar fit when I stopped being Christian. She originally insisted I attend church anyway. She later relented and told me I didn’t have to go to church if I agreed to look into other religions (I was 12, so she had more power to mandate stuff like that.) It worked out okay.
I think she needed to know I wasn’t lost in a moralless void, and eventually she could see that I still cared about ethics, other people, etc.