My father is Muslim and when he met my mother, she was Jewish ...
Sounds like you had a nice family life!
Interfaith marriages can work quite well, even without one party converting to the other's religion.
An aside on interfaith marriages - (This info is 20 years old so Brazil could have changed) In Brazil, if you wanted to marry a catholic Brazilian, you had to convert to the Catholic Church ... unless you were Japanese. Why? Because the Catholic Church in Brazil recognized that the Japanese would happily go through "conversion" and then turn around and still call themselves Shintoists or Buddists. They just went with the flow because they were already practicing two religions in their daily life. What was it to add another one?
As they used to say in Japan (where I knew the Brazilians), you were born into the Shinto faith, if you wanted to wear a fluffy white wedding gown, you got married in the Christian faith, and you died in the Buddist faith.
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