Relationship

[Faniran Praise]

Good day, My name is Praise, I'm 25. About 10 years ago, I met a girl in high school who I liked so much, (she 23 now) but I was really Timid to ask her out then but later I realized she liked me too. She migrated to another continent so we obviously lost physical contact but were able to connect through Facebook and other social media till now.

Here is my problem, we started dating some years back after I was able to express myself cutting through our past experiences and stories I realized she already has a baby but I still didn't mind. We started dating as sinners until recently when I became born again and I was tempted to break up with her but I really love her.

I asked a mum in the lord what I should do, then she asked me to break up the sinful relationship and create a godly one by leading her to Christ. It wasn't easy cause I had to seriously intercede for her salvation and persuade her occasionally until she accepted Jesus. I broke up at a time when it was like she wasn't gonna accept Christ. We re-United with her accepting Christ and we've being dating since then.

My Christian parents won't agree, they feel it's not genuine and I've being fighting this battle for a while now. Sometimes I feel condemned, sometimes I feel down. But we both talk about God, pray together and share the word of God together and we always calling our attention to the fact that lust mustn't be involved.

I've prayed to God severally about her and I've always had that confidence she's right for me, because I really love her. But my parents feel I'm walking by sight ( flesh ). At this point I'm really confused about what to do, should I break up? That will hurt her and me too. Or should I keep dating her?

Please I need to add this we usually use petting names like dearie, love, baby etc just too express fondness and we do tell ourselves how much we love each other. Without lust. Please let God use you to shed light to my dark path using the bible of course. Thank you.

[chosenone]

What reasons do your parents give for thinking her conversion isn't genuine? How long has it been since she converted? Are you both involved in a church together?
It does seem that you sort of forced her to take that decision, which isn't the way to do it. Its can happen that one partner will do this so that they can get married when its not genuine. Not saying that is the case here.

Also if you are 25 you are quite old enough to make your own decisions surely?