Culture skirmishes

I witnessed my best friend break up with his three-year fiancée yesterday. She cried for hours while he was there then called him crying. Twice. At five in the morning.

This is the story, as short as I can tell it:

She moved from México to New Mexico (it was a short trip) to study fashion design. Shortly after arriving, she met my friend and they started dating.

About a year into the dating, she had problems with her host family and my friend offered to help her out by moving in with her. This caused lots of internal problems for her because she was Catholic and thought it was a sin to live with a boy before getting married. He’s an atheist and thinks it’s stupid to not live with someone before you get married. The home situation worsened and forced her to move in with him on the condition they eventually get married. He agreed.

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