As a man who married a non-Mormon woman, my story has a slightly different view point, but it comes down to essentially the same principles. Trust your instincts and your spiritual promptings. Or do you just push through the exhaustion because you care about the person and do things to make them happy even when you don't always feel like it. I don't think I can do it again. I wanted to thank all the respondents and the blog author for sharing. I am so glad I found this blog. I'm no doctor so what am I supposed to do twiddle my thumbs in our room while he gets back. So if you are dating a Mormon guy, always wear knee-length, avoid tiny shorts, mini skirts, short or revealing dresses, plunging necklines, or sleeveless tops. You can't provide that for her so your marriage will be defective from the outset. Be prepared for divorce.
If you want him - he is part of a medical school package right now, and likely will be for some time to come. But his absence in the spiritual side of my life, and that of my mother, was very hard. They value femininity, motherhood, and masculinity in men. How the Book of Mormon was translated using a sacred rock. There will be struggles in marriage and childrearing whether or not he is a member. I made the decision not to have those things when I married a non-member.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Otherwise you're just denying them eternal salvation in their eyes. I could get a small jigsaw puzzle and send those pieces once a day. Secondly, if he's still in residency, he has to prevail and give it his all. Learning from a young age that any religion will do means that your children almost certainly will ultimately believe that any religion will do. This can make it harder for you two to do things together. Seems he's always on call or on a totally different schedule than I. Do you have a few suggestions for talking points I may want to bring up from stuff directly on LDS.
Life is a journey and going through it with a true partner, and a mutual respect for curiosity, is so far greatly rewarding. He may never want anything to do with Mormons or the church again. There is NO guarantee that marrying a returned missionary RM in the temple equates with love and happiness. Finding a person with whom your wavelength matches, and around whom you feel you can just be yourself, talk about anything, and not be worried about being judged, is not as easy as the romantic movies and TV soaps make it out to be. But I do want to be with him.
