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"Four months later .. our relationship has advanced to where we act as a couple, when we are alone. If his friends knew about us, they would force him not to see me again."
This all sounds way too weird. He must be part of some fundamentalist sect. It is important to find out what he really believes, and it seems he is fairly vague about that.
But having "friends" who can force you to behave in a certain (so far as I am concerned) very unnatural way is definitely not a plus.
Well I spend 5 years in Divinity School and Graduate School of Religion. That pretty much cured me of religion. Mostly, the things that seem to be so important to religious people and cause such divisions are fairly absurd.
Not long ago you could fund fundamentalist preachers all over the South and elsewhere who believed and preached that segregation was the will of God. Now they have given up on that and just about the only group they get to hate is homosexuals. So the Episcopal Church is divided over whether or not to ordain homosexuals, and the split could be very bad. I just mention that because the absurdity of objecting to homosexual behavior seems to be part of what passes for Christianity in some places these days.
Remember that if you two are having sex, he is bound by his religion to repent and never do that again. How do you think that makes him feel about the relationship?
Anyway, I have less and less patience with this sort of stuff the older I get (and I am really old).
My advice is to run for the nearest exit. Find yourself some nice person who does not have to deal with such a rigid code of behavior, which he violates anyway.
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