My boyfriend and I have been best friends for roughly 5 years now, and we've been together as a couple for almost a year and a half. We both know that we have religious differences because he grew up in a Christian household while I grew up in a house that...didn't really have a religious preference. The difference hasn't really been much of a problem until now. We debate (a little heatedly) about politics and about how evolution is taught in schools (as well as the validity of evolution). Most of the time, the argument ends because one side usually gives in (or surrenders, as he says) to the other to avoid more conflict.
So what can I do? He won't stop being a Christian (and that's fine with me; I would NEVER ask him to give up his beliefs, nor would I even want him to!), and I'm agnostic, which means that basically I don't know what to believe. While I'm skeptical that a God or higher being that watches over us exists, I think that there is a possibility. Anyways, we differ in opinion on a things. I'm more open-minded, he's more conservative. I believe that global warming exists, he doesn't. He's adamantly opposed to same-s*x marriage, I'm not. I believe that evolution is legitimate, he doesn't. The only way I have found that this relationship will work is if I put aside my own opinions and agree with him on things. But he doesn't want me to do that because he doesn't want to lose any part of me, or suppress my opinions.
We both want this relationship to work. What can we do?
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