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Paul, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call. I appreciate it.

Thank you. What can I help you with?

So me and my boyfriend, we've been together for a little over eight years now.

We did buy a house and we moved in together for the first time two years ago.

And I guess I have been, you know, I think we both, you know,

I've been feeling we both want to get married. We're not married. We're not engaged.

And I feel like we both had our reservations about maybe each other, but just like we have a lot of love for each other. And here recently, I'm sorry,

could you take a side trip and just tell me what the reservations are about?

I think maybe we each have our own reservations. Okay, when I hear, when I hear the word maybe, then I realize I'm not getting facts.

So when you two have discussed getting married, what are the facts that keep you from going

forward with it?

I think, well, I know one of them, you know, we have a different in the way we see religion, and we also want children.

We both want children, which is great.

But, yeah, I think religion is a big one for us that we have kind of a hang up with.

I'm sorry.

Why is religion a hang up?

How is religion a hang up? What difference does it make what religions you are?

I think because we want to have children in the future. Oh, I see. Yes. I think like navigating that.

So it never occurred to you personally, Paul, never occurred to you not to invest in something as huge as a house

with somebody who's not sharing the same future with you. I mean, why did that not occur to you

that that was not a good step? It's very hard to get out of owning a house together. Very difficult

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