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I'm pretty sure my family won't be satisfied unless I bring them a fellow biblical literalist who will cheerfully burble on about things like Noah's Ark and the Garden of Eden as accepted historical fact, and commiserate about anything that can be perceived as persecution. I myself can barely stand to be around my family when they start talking religion, and would always sit in silence until the subject changed. It was preferable to being subject to a harangue consuming an entire afternoon.

I know I'm their offspring and it's motivated by love, their trying to "save" me... but a lot of what they said about the last girl I tried to introduce to them has served only to push me away. Our relationship is very rocky right now, very surface. They wanted the "Everybody Loves Raymond" life, all of us living close together, them being an active influence in rearing grandchildren and instilling their religious values, but I'm sorely tempted to move somewhere far away and live my own life.