It has to do with their character. I know a lot of Mormons who were also not raised on fear and guilt and strict gender rolesвbut I was, as were many of my peers. I've read some of the articles linked to by mormonessays. I've read through some stuff there and it all seems pretty tame so far. I was born and raised in the LDS faith. I can see why people get a divorce when their kids get older. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all sexual relationships outside of marriage defined as the legal union between a man and a woman are sinful. I'm on mobile and it isn't letting me post the URL. I made a conscious decision to marry outside the church for my own reasons. She is now happy with her uber-Mormon boyfriend and I am happily dating other people as well.
She won't marry you. I was going to get engaged to a surgen Indians do go for arranged marriage but my teacher she is married to a doctor asked me if i could manage to sacrifice family time after i get married to a doc. Although we're young, we've talked about marriage and the realities of everything.
I intend to spend some quality time in the temple, with my bishop, and with close family and friends as I think and pray my way through this decision, but I would also value your insights into this. He was the best decision I have ever made in my life, hands down. I also have an MPH degree, and am currently working and trying to support us while he's in school. Tell her that you want your relationship with her, and her relationship with your children together to be separate from her religion with her god. Work out as many as you can before marriage happens. He believes in God, but also believes that God is everywhere, and therefore does not need to be worshipped in a specific place of worship with specific prayers. Do not make anything risque public. Maybe more convinced than you are. If you can live with some auxiliary authority in your life knowing that your wife will, as necessary, bend to its will instead of yours, you'll cross those bridges as you come to them.
I feel I am not appreciated and valued as a wife. A lot will fall into the shoulder of the other partner who is not a doctor. We have to show them we care. Going along with her cult might feel fine when it is just you in her, but if you have kids, it will be very different. So, we decide to take a "break" because there was so much tension and resentment in the relationship. But I do still largely consider us an interfaith couple. She got engaged 3 months later.
