History Main / ConvertingForLove

* Subverted with actress Catherine E. Coulson of ''Series/TwinPeaks'' fame. While she ''did'' convert to Judaism, it wasn't to get married. However, after her conversion, she married a rabbi.

Compare LoveIsLikeReligion, when the "conversion" is ''to'' love. See also TurnToReligion and ChangingYourselfForLove. Contrast YouAreWorthHell, when a character chooses eternal damnation to be with their loved one.

Compare LoveIsLikeReligion, when the "conversion" is ''to'' love. See also TurnToReligion and ChangingYourselfForLove.

** In a similar vein, the [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Russian Tsar]] had to be a member of the [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Russian Orthodox Church]] -- as did the monarch's consort. This created a problem when Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine fell hard for her cousin, the Russian Tsarevich (Crown Prince) Nicholas, while visiting her sister Elizabeth -- who was married to Nicholas' uncle Grand Duke Sergei -- in Saint Petersburg in 1890.[[note]]They had met at Sergei and Elizabeth's wedding, and gotten along tremendously, but as she was 12 and he was 16 at the time, it wasn't clear whether this was romantic.[[/note]] However, Alix was a devout Lutheran and was understandably very reluctant to leave her faith. In 1894, though, her love for Nicholas, and a long talk with her sister (who had eventually converted to Orthodoxy in 1891), convinced her to do so, and so Alix converted, taking the name Alexandra Feodorovna.[[note]]"Alexandra" from "Alix" (yes, that was her actual name; her parents wanted to give her the name "Alice", same as her British mother, but knew from experience that Germans tended to butcher it); "Feodorovna" because her father's name Ludwig was not traditionally Russian, so she was given the traditional patronymic of foreign Romanov brides -- the {{Patronymic}} of St. Feodor the Black, PatronSaint of the Romanovs as a family.[[/note]] Ironically, their religion was the ''only'' part of Russian culture Alexandra embraced wholeheartedly.

* Faye Kellerman's ''Peter Decker'' series has Decker convert to Judaism in order to be with the Jewish Orthodox widow Rina Lazarus. An unusual example since as an adult he finds out that he was born to Jewish parents (and thus was already considered a Jew under Jewish law) but he was adopted and raised by Southern Baptists, so it's as much about getting reacquainted with his heritage as this trope.

* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', Jenna gets baptized in order to hook up with Luke, who is a conservative Christian.

--> '''Isabella:''' Of course I'll be converting/So I'm sure we'll get along.
--> '''Sid's Mother:''' Honey, please. You had me at shalom!

-->'''Feldman:''' Well, you know, if things work out between us, you'll have to convert.
-->'''Holly:''' Of course I will. ({{beat}}) To what?