How did you guys meet? Any similar interests like the history of Byzantium? What about her makes her smart?
School.
And no, I'm the only one who's interested in Byzantine history (that's why I wrote that essay on it).
Very cultured, well read and knows things about many subjects.
So with people you don't know, what then?
I usually hope they'll go away and mind their own business. I'll avoid eye contact and stammer a little. It's bad, I know.
Of all available denominations you are about to join the oldest and the most conservative one and you fear that people might took you as a fundamentalist? 

Fundamentalist as in very strict.