How would you go about this
My boyfriend and I have different religious beliefs. He is a Jehovah’s Witness and I am agnostic. We have a son due in October and before we got pregnant I expressed to him about how I still wanted to celebrate holidays with my kids because I have a lot of great memories with them especially Christmas and birthdays, he told me that he really just didn’t want me to celebrate Halloween with the kids and didn’t mind the rest. I agreed to this along with him being able to teach the kids about his faith and that we could go to the meetings together as a family. Now that we are expecting he feels as though this agreement isn’t fair and wants to further compromise however this is a big deal to me and had the conditions been different when we first talked about it I wouldn’t have agreed or want to have kids with him. On top of this he has always wanted to give his son his name (Carlos) so he could be carlos jr or CJ, I’m not fully against this but I want to have a part in my sons name too so I said if he gets carlos jr I’d like our son to have my last name (never planned on changing my last name even when I get married) he doesn’t think this is fair either and wants our son to have his last name. Another thing he doesn’t think is fair is that I want to gentle parent and I have done a ton of research on child development and trying to understand how I can be a good mom, and since he hasn’t done any research and doesn’t know what’s best he thinks it’s not fair that I want to raise our son with all my techniques (I would not at all be against doing something he suggests if he would do research and show that he’s also trying to do things that are best for our son and not just how he saw his siblings being raised). How can I go about compromising with him on all of these things and it being fair to the both of us?
Thank you if you read all this and thank you in advance for all the advance.
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