Marriage is simply not an option to me there. I'm not complaining about the sex, but sometimes it prevents me from getting to know him better when we don't share any other bonding activities or get a chance to really talk. This is my own personal opinion. When mormon married a mormon and failed miserably. Word to the wise, wait a day or two. Now I try to put myself in his shoes and he has always had a problem standing firm in any decision so its hard for him to say no. Dating in your teenage years will help you learn the kinds of things you value in another person. Immediateley after we got married I realised things were not going to be as I thought. We make time for each other every chance we get which sometimes is during the noon hour for lunch.
You should take your cues from your partner, not from documentaries or this sub, on whether your partner's views and actions are manipulative, brainwashy and damaging. What are the strategies for not taking the absence personally I mentioned above that I'm cognizant of my SO's constraints, but it's definitely hard I have been married to an Interventional Radiologist 30 yrs. Is your spouse willing to give you up on Sundays, and half your weeknights. I appreciate your honest, and I really like the way you phrased things, particularly this sentence: Thank you for your comments. As the patriarchal leader, it will be up to you to figure it out and to dispel her unrealistic fantasies. I would show her this recent post for example: Her family will also be thinking about this and will talk to you about it when you spend time with them. A lot of people will tell you to run but if she is in her late 20s most Mormon guys her age are married. No beliefs are protected from challenge, the rules of evidence, or derision.
God will help you both work this out. The doctrinal and afterlife issues around a non-temple marriage are an entirely different topic, and one that I am personally much more at peace with than my questions about how one might make an interfaith marriage work in this life. December 17, I figured it might be fun to update you kind folks on what happened. Yes; I suppose if each of us believe the other is brainwashed, there's going to be major problems later on. I wish I could let go of our love as easily as he has, but I just can't. You I think are ok with that. To the individual who asked, "Am I dating a douchebag. For whatever reason, none of them ever seemed that interested in me I freely admit this could have been cluelessness on my partand so never turned serious. If you like living on someone else's coat times, them by all means. She's too heavily invested in Mormonism for that.
These past few weeks have made me very depressed. I suggest to run as it will not get better. Can you live your whole life with a husband you doesnt or never will believe in the mormon church. You are a good person and she can see that. The gold is in the footnotes and sources linked from those new essays. Doesn't leave many options here though but better than constantly having them push the church on you until you either give in and convert or break up. She'll be hoping that you're going to convert and if neither is happy with the other being as they are, you'll find yourself divorced shortly down the road. I hope I can forgive it someday, but even still my anger is red hot. I remember when my ex and I had invited friends to our house for a 4th of July dinner and had spent a lot of money and time getting ready.
