As believers, we may love those around us...from our family to our neighbors, to the stranger on the street...God calls us to show love to others. Of course, the KINDS of relationships we have with all of those people differ greatly. When you have the truth in common, another believer is closer to you than a non-believing parent. God's warning to us about being unequally yoked is clearly for our protection, not to stifle or bind us. He knows that if we're pursuing a relationship with someone who doesn't know the Lord, than that common ground of Jesus that should be a foundation....becomes a hole we can be trapped in.