Halloween does not belong to my culture, help!?

Question

I hate spiders and horror movies since I was a kid so always avoided both things.
I was raised in Latin America and Europe. Now I am married to an american gentleman.

Halloween was never part of my culture and upbringing. Last year the maximum I did is to dress up and just go dancing with a group of friends and I think that was a big compromise with me even though I consider this celebration a participation with the pagan tradition of Middle Ages, which was more focused on doing good deeds for the devil so he would not harm people.

Unfortunatelly my husband is very mad at me this year and is acting deppressed acussing me to not letimg him decorate the house with scary stuff like death people, skulls, SPIDERS, etc. (did I mention I am aracnofobic and he knows that?) Also he is asking me why I would never go to a hunted house, watch horror movies or let him disguise himself as a gigantic spider with many of them on his face.

I was thinking to celebrate this time as a nice orangy colourful harvest time and decorate with pumpkins and flowers and stuff like that to show my emphaty and be polite, but he insists with his horrorific stuff.

I just do not know what to do. I am a christian who fears God and genuinly wants to honour him and I do not really think I would do that disguising myself as a devil or something horrific and I even fear that when we have kids my husband will try to force me or them into the horrour world.

I am so concerned...

Answer 1

hmmm...maybe a compromise? usually when two people disagree its good to talk about it and compromise. I am a christian too so i understand. i dont really like creepy things either. though we should trust God with all our fears :) i don't agree with dressing up for the devil but its not the thing that is evil. you can dress up as simply as a princess or a bug or animal with the intentions of just having a good time with your family and honor God in a way that you can. You can go out dress up have candy given to you and it not be evil. i hope i am some help. i hope your husband and yourself can work it out together.

i hate spiders too >.< but then i have to remember they are God's creation. Talk with your husband :) remeber we wives are to submit to our husbands. our husbands are to love and protect us though too.



Lola's options sound pretty good too :) im not very creative sorry

Answer 2

Carve some pumpkins with smiley faces!

You can never go wrong with pumpkin craving or you can play some kind of music cd they have some at stores like target that are ment for Halloween like squecky floors but not any shrieking or any of that. Also

try getting signs that say happy Halloween or those cute ghost stuffed animals . Just some ideas hope I helped !(:

Answer 3

Halloween isn't unavoidably a non secular holiday anymore because of the fact that massive corporation took it over. you may gown up as an angel or cat or apple or some thing. It would not ought to be vampires and witches and devils.