Marriage

I was walking home as someone opened the subject of marriage with me. He asked me if I would ever marry someone with another religion. According to him anyone who would find a great love with another person wouldn't care about religion, politics, etnicity or age. He continued talking about love and marriage when I finally felt that I had to stop him. I agree that if you marry someone of course you have to be inlove with him. HOWEVER I do not think that love alone can be a reason to get marrried. You have to be logical, you have to see the whole picture. There's a difference between dating someone and marrying someone. When you marry a person you give that person a vow; to be with him for the rest of your life, in sickness and in health... until death do you part. So I would ask myself, how would it be to marry someone with different believes then me? Some would say it's worth fighting for, love conquers all etc etc. I have to disagree because there will be a lot of things that you will fight over and every time you'll fight you'll grow further apart and what will you raise your children to be? You might say that they will decide by themselves but when I'm sure of the religion that I have and my kids choose to have another religion, will I really be okay with that? I don't think so.. no I know I won't be okay with that. I can also never think of marrying someone who doesn't share my love for allah and ahlul bayt, I can never be with someone that doesn't scream Labayk ya Nasrallah every time we hear him speak. It's not that I wouldn't be able to cohibit with that kind of person, it's simply that I would never want to. Age should not be an obstacle, neither should etnicity but the rest will be a big obstacle wether we like it or not.