Don't worry about it. I think it's easy to get concerned, especially since I've found that people from both Churches are inclined to be a little bit wary about this - it's a bit like the family sizing you up and thinking, 'is s/he good enough for one of ours, then?'. My mother is forever fussing about how we eat during fast periods - and we haven't even told them we're thinking about getting married yet! I suspect I will be in for a lot of comments about the ceremony... I'm not sure what you're wanting to say when you say relationships are about give and take? My partner has his icon corner, but surely it would be wrong for me to have an icon blessed by a priest who *knows* I don't venerate the saints in that way? I mean, there's compromise, and then there's conversion, and they are two different things.