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Hello, I'm Rahul Tandon.

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

This time, in BBCOS conversations, we're bringing people together

to share their experiences of religion and romance.

US Vice President J.D. Vance spoke recently about his interfaith marriage. He's a Christian and his

wife, Usha, is a Hindu. They've raised their children as Christians, and the vice president said he hopes

that his wife will one day convert. His comments have proved controversial, but it got us thinking,

how difficult is it to stay together when you have different religious faiths? Later, we'll hear

from families, where partners have converted to Islam and Judaism for love.

First, though, we're going to meet two couples who, like the Vance's, have interfaith marriages.

My colleague, Luke Jones, spoke to Reza, who's a Muslim.

He's married to Jessica, a Christian there in Los Angeles.

And Halle is a Christian married to Sukhutu. He's Hindu.

Living in the U.S. state of Indiana, Hallie and Sukkatu met at high school 10 years ago.

It was very difficult for us, especially talking to my parents about it.

Hallie's parents were very accepting and everything went really smooth on that end. But that was a big challenge for us to

figure it out. And it took about a year for us to have that conversation over and over again to

fully understand our stance on both sides, what our morals were. And at the end of the day,

like, we realized that our morals were pretty similar. I think because we both grew up hearing and seeing in the world and around us that you have to be either one way or the other and the other ways or wrong,

that it was a very scary conversation because I didn't know how it would go.

So it definitely was a very touchy subject for us.

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