Wife spirtual and religious im not.
Hi all,
Lately me (27m) and my wife (25f) have been in alot of fights about religion and spirtuality. Basically I am an atheist, haven’t really felt the need to “find” god or believe in existing of other beings than the humans, i believe in science and this clashes with my wife.
She has been doing alot of readings, believes in demons ghosts and in wicca/god and for me I am someone who never felt this way and believe I will never feel anything other than my emotions. Everytime we talk about this subject we both get triggerd as I am not willing to change my beliefs to hers and I feel like i am not getting respected for my deciscion. I dont mind her doing all these things at all but it feels like she wants to force me to also believe in these things. She said multiple times we dont have any connection, this is the only way and she doesnt want to be with a man who thinks like me for her whole life. Besides this she hates that i barely am able to talk about my feelings, this is caused by youth trauma’s which I havent been able to resolve and dont know how to. I am not sure what to do here, I dont want to lose her since I do love her and shes pregnant of our first born, but I feel like i am not getting accepted for the way I am and will eventually lose her cause i dont believe in spirituality or any sort of god, though I respect when someone feels this way. When we get into arguments its mostly back and forth about she coming up with arguments why spirituality or god are real and me defending it by the way of science. Following me getting called a sheep for listening to all the “higher ups” in society.
Im kind of lost in what to do so any advice would be helpful. I told her this is who I am and i enjoy my life as it is but for some reason it feels like its not good enough.
TL;DR
wife believes in spirtuality and god, i dont and we clash about it alot. Threathens to leave me if i dont change this or will be open to believing in something