My first wife Elizabeth was Unitarian Christian of Anglo-Lakota-Cheyenne-Swedish American heritage when I met her. She converted to Islam on her own a few months into our relationship, and continues to be a religious Muslim following the Maliki Madhab in LA where she lives now. Our marriage lasted 5 years and religion definitely made the events leading up to our eventual divorce more amicable, but wasn't enough to save the marriage.
Clara, my second, was Agnostic from a Korean American Unitarian Christian family. That lasted for 5 years and we parted ways because she refused to move to Bangladesh.
My third and fourth wives were Bangladeshis. One of them pretty much an atheist and the other a recovering Wahabi. Not having GOD in their lives led to unacceptable behavior on occasion and no doubt my responses to that. Each one lasted 2 years, more or less.
Religion can help but obviously isn't the only factor. I prefer Theocentricity nurtured and cultivated through a Way, mentioned a number of faiths in my original post, rather than egocentricity simply because in my experience, that can create better chances for a sustainable relationship with me in it. No exclusivism or value judgment at all ...
