And he is standing his ground even though he’s been getting death threats for his belief.“The truth is sometimes when I’m praying, my prayers are not ‘guide me o thy great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land.’ I’m not quoting from the 23rd Psalm. Sometimes my prayers have explicit language in them. And because of that, I learned that God can handle that,” Murchinson explained in an interview Monday.We fear being engulfed by the other, becoming lost in love. If you had no desire to mesh with your partner, you might as well be roommates.But healthy relationships allow each partner to maintain his identity, distinct from the shared identity as a couple.

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Marcus Murchinson (L) of Tree of Life Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California.