I am a Shia woman who comes from a very religious family. However I am in love with a Sunni man and would like to marry him. Should I teach him about Shia Islam and enlighten him as to allow him to convert? Or should I instead end everything with him?
Fiqh-wise, it is allowed to marry a Sunni man.
However, perhaps there is some truth to the saying: Women marry men hoping they will change, and men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
Also, sometimes love is about how we imagine a person might be ideally, instead of who they actually are. So it might be your ideal that he will accept this path if only he knows about it, but what he will actually do or care about on a day to day level may be different from your ideal, because at the end of the day, people are real people and not our ideals of them or how we think they should be. This is in addition to the pull of family ties (blood kin).
Of course some people do engage in religious conversion or conversion of school of thought after meeting a significant other, and it's always good to share what one believes to be the truth.
