When a Jewish Woman and an Irish Catholic Man Marry
Barbara O’Connor is a Jewish woman from Overland Park in Kansas. She is married to an Irish Catholic man.
The OP couple are featured in an article by InterfaithFamily.com on looking at the communication gap within marriages of differing faiths. InterfaithFamily.com tells us that almost fifty percent of marriages involving Jewish people in the US are to spouses of other faiths.
Barbara in Overland Park says she and her Irish Catholic husband have extremely different communication styles typical of their backgrounds:
“I tend to be overly communicative, and Ted will go to great lengths to not have to discuss something. In his mind, not discussing something will keep the peace.”
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