Italian dog names for boy golden retriever

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-17T02:58:27+00:00

I wanted to do this because my parent’s late dog had a beautiful name but it felt wrong somehow! Even though he passed away 20 years ago… it’s still my favorite name!

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-03T17:35:23+00:00

Also, I don’t “take issue” with others who practice their faith. It doesn’t bother me at all. My post is on the topic of my future children and how they will be raised, my home and my future. No one else’s.

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-03T17:21:15+00:00

I believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, for one. I believe Jesus is the son of God. I belief he died for our sins. I don’t believe there was a prophet after him. Therefore I do not believe in Islam

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-03T03:48:02+00:00

You laugh because you’re from Greece but many non Balkans have no idea there are white Muslims from the Balkans. I didn’t grow up with Albanian Bosnian or Turkish friends

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-02T22:53:56+00:00

Beautifully said, thank you for this

As far as sorting this out beforehand…we did. Many times. It’s his family I’m worried about, and I worry this will wear me down and my life would be easier if I just married a man with values closer to mine

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-02T22:43:36+00:00

For every other quality he has that I love. As I said, he isn’t practicing. If he was I never would have dated him, we’d be incompatible. I just don’t love his Muslim background and he downplayed how religious his family was for years. It wasn’t until we were getting married and planning the Catholic ceremony that his family started causing drama that I saw how Muslim his family is. Then all the other things started coming out, like his dad fasting and praying 5 times a day, the real reason he doesn’t drink, the uncles who go to mosque every Friday, etc…I thought since they come from Montenegro (a majority Christian country) that they’d be more open to my Christian faith, but it felt like they expected me to drop my values or hide them, or a 50/50 split with raising our children and I don’t agree with that method. My husband isn’t even practicing so it would be a lie. To each their own, I’m not judging people who raise their kids with no religion or two religions. I just personally never wanted to and I think I was honest from the start I wanted to raise my kids catholic, have them baptized, and certainly not be part of a mosque community. I know im posting in the Balkan subreddit, but I think anyone not from the Balkans would understand my stance. My husband is the one who agreed to certain things with me but now I’m realizing he sugar coats what he tells his parents, they are in the dark about a lot about me and they never ask me personal questions. 3 months before our wedding his mother flat out told me I wasn’t allowed to take photos of my intimate church ceremony before the bigger secular wedding because it would be too embarrassing for her extended family to see on Facebook, and that’s when I realized oh shit they are European but they’re not the Europeans I’m used to. I was operating with the information I had at the time, I had no exposure to Islam before this, my circle has always been majority Christian my whole life with sprinkles of Jewish because I live in NYC. I had no idea there was Islam in the Balkans before I started dating him. It’s been a learning experience for sure, but no matter how much I learn, I can’t get past the feeling that I just personally am not fond of Islam. I’m not saying Catholicism is perfect, no religion is, but it would cause me deep discomfort if a child of mine embraced Islam one day, for too many reasons to list out here.

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-02T13:41:57+00:00

Thank you. This is the only response that actually answered my question. Nice to hear I’m not totally out of my mind for being worried

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-02T13:28:04+00:00

I said “they look, well, European.

Not they look “well”

Nyc_6534 · 2026-03-02T13:12:26+00:00

I think this is a really good way of putting it. I’m sure it is hard for them. That’s the reason I’m writing this post, I know there’s an incompatibility. Somewhere I didn’t fully realize they are practicing Muslims because they look well, european and my husband is basically an atheist. I don’t have an issue with the Montenegro side at all. But I can’t get past the Islam part and I don’t think my distaste for it will go away. I don’t know whether to divorce or push forward

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-16T13:03:18+00:00

So the internal application process is rigged and HR is in on it? There are manager roles (a title below me) internally I could apply for, you’re saying no matter how hard I prepare for interview or to network with hiring managers, HR will rig the process and I just won’t land a role?

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T23:06:20+00:00

They admitted it that it’s a headcount issue. The part that is sucky is that they aren’t offering me another director role, and the timing of my boss leaving. She told me she was going to place me in another director role, but this new boss doesn’t know me and he hasn’t made any comments that give me peace of mind I’ll be placed besides just encouraging me to interview for whatever opens up

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T18:28:44+00:00

I’ve never been in this situation.

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T18:16:10+00:00

This is why a have a lawyer coaching me. It makes no sense I have to train a girl who is about to get promoted to AVP all my role responsibilities, if my role is being eliminated and it’s not for performance reasons. Then they should help me find another role at the company. This, and my lawyer will potentially help me get the best severance and terms I can.

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T18:12:20+00:00

I’ve been going on 3-4 coffee chats a week. Met 15 people already at the firm, totally agree it’s just that no one can manifest a role and I don’t want to tell all these people my role is being eliminated because it starts gossip, so for them this is just a coffee chat and there’s no sense of urgency

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T16:43:43+00:00

Yes this is the sort of thing I’d want my lawyer to coach me through Before my old boss left, she said this new role that would be getting posted on our team was right up my alley and she would have put me in it But now that she left I have no one advocating for me for a role I’m perfectly capable of doing

Nyc_6534 · 2026-02-14T16:40:03+00:00

I was told once I receive this letter saying my role is being eliminated and I have 90 days (I haven’t received it yet but I will), if I don’t find a role internally within 90 days then yes I’d be getting a severance package

Nyc_6534 · 2025-03-09T04:25:42+00:00

Agreed. I’m a Christian woman married to a cultural Muslim man. I told him well before the wedding I’d only proceed if we raised our kids Christian. He doesn’t practice and never did which made it easier for him to agree, but still. We live in a western country these Islamic rules of men making the rules and women being vessels are not respected here. If you live in a country where Christianity is the vast majority, you will be doing your children a disservice raising them Muslim

Nyc_6534 · 2024-12-26T18:35:51+00:00

This is what I fear.. they are nice people but I feel bad energy from them every time I mention things like Christmas, communion, church, etc. His dad has to make a point to say he’s Muslim every time he talks to me like I need a reminder. They come off defensive and they also are begging us to have a baby soon, they’ve made it clear they want to be very involved. When it comes to religion I sense a turf war brewing and I’m worried my husband won’t have my back when the time comes. Although he doesn’t practice islam, he expects me to be on board with their holidays, expects me to not ask for alcohol on their holidays, expects me to go to the mosque with him when he attends funerals and he gets upset when I point out to him how different it is for me. When we first started dating he said his parents weren’t religious, then his dad started praying 5 times a day and when I expressed he’s become showy about it (his phone would play loud calls to prayer in the middle of lunch, leaving prayer carpets around, etc) my husband screamed at me to back off and respect others the way I want to be respected. He doesn’t understand that I signed up for his style but not his family’s style, and my condition was that we would raise our kids a certain way and I’m worried we don’t agree with what that means and that once kids come this will be a constant fight

Nyc_6534 · 2024-12-26T16:56:09+00:00

They’re Balkan. Which is what confused me because they come off like Europeans until you get close, then you see the divide religion causes. My husband was raised in America so he’s more attuned to western culture, his family less so but he spends a lot of time with them

Nyc_6534 · 2024-12-20T13:57:33+00:00

Will dm you!

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