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Well, yesterday we went to Edgware to meet Ittai's parents. Hmmph. I could say it was better than I expected, but, really, it was about 10 times worse. So much silence. His mother didn't like me wearing my cross(es) and thought it was disrespectful. I didn't agree. I mean, I can wear conservative clothes to show my respect, but, I'm not going to hide any signs of my religion for them any more than for anyone else. I never take my cross off, and it was too hot to wear something with a turtleneck. Grrr. The amount of ultra-Jewish symbols they have around the house, they must be kidding, critisizing my little pieces of jewellery. I mean, Ittai's mother was singing Jewish religious songs as she was preparing food, etc. I have nothing against any kind of other religion, but I find it very insulting that they think I should "come towards them" instead of the other way round. In these matters, I don't think anyone should convert to anything. She was commenting on our "different background" that would create problems later in the relationship, by which she obviously only meant the religion. I'm not much of a practicing Christian, and Ittai is not a religious Jew, so I have no idea where religious background would ever matter to us. His father was just talking about trivial matters to avoid unpleasant conversation. Basically, it was quite quite crap. They seemed like very nice people, and if I wasn't married to their son, I'm sure they wouldn't hate me at all. Plus, yes, according to what Ittai told me, his mother was very pissed off. She even said something like "what's this you've brought into my house??" (not in front of me, but still...). Bah, it was quite fun. But at least I got to see pretty pictures of Ittai when he was just a little boy, aww... At one point in the conversation I mentioned something about children, and you could just see the anger rise in her face. Oh well. Maybe it will get better with time, maybe once they get older and start forgetting stuff...