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Does This Feel Like Home—or Are You Just Less Alone?
Chris Williamson’s five questions offer a clear-eyed way to distinguish true partnership from a relationship that merely quiets loneliness.
Scott Turing & Laurie Pascal
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You Do Not Have to Rent Out Your Peace to Modern Dating
A dating-culture panel offers a starting point for a more grounded choice: use modern tools without surrendering your boundaries, attention, or values to them.
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Your Partner Is Not the Enemy. Your Unplanned Relationship Might Be.
A new conversation with couples therapist Dr. Stan Tatkin explains why unrepaired moments make partners feel like enemies—and what intentional midlife daters can build instead.
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Date Their Tuesday, Not Their Highlight Reel
Chris Williamson and Mark Manson make the case for evaluating a partner’s ordinary life—their habits, stress response, values, and everyday kindness—before you commit.
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A Girl’s Body Is Not a Discipline Problem
A woman in the group told a story from when she was seventeen. She had followed every clothing rule she understood. She was covered from neck to ankle. Her outfit accommodated garments. Her skirt happened to fit the body she had. A bishopric member in his sixties told her parents
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The Date Is Not the Prize
A post in a mid-singles group asked people to share their best photo and find someone to take on a date within two weeks. That was it. No long discourse about modern dating. No grievance. No twelve-part framework for becoming irresistible by Thursday. More than five hundred comments later, the
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The Passport Isn’t the Problem
International love can be beautiful. The question is whether both people can choose freely, keep their dignity, and build a partnership that makes neither person smaller.
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The Etiquette of the Block
You don't owe an explanation to someone who is making you feel unsafe. Scott and Laurie break down the difference between ghosting and guarding your perimeter.
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Bone-Tired, Guarded, and Still Hopeful: What One Question Revealed About LDS Dating Right Now
We asked a group of mid-singles to describe their dating lives in one word. The answers broke our hearts — and revealed something important about what it actually costs to keep showing up.
Scott & Laurie
The Mirror You Keep Refusing to Look At
A post went up recently in the LDS Dating Midsingles group on Facebook that pulled 40 reactions and 105 comments in the first 2 hours. It was posted anonymously, which, honestly, tracks. The man who wrote it spent several paragraphs cataloguing his credentials: the 60 pounds he has lost, the
Scott & Laurie
Why Are LDS Men Not Choosing LDS Women? (And Why That Question Is Only Half the Story)
A post in the "LDS Mid Singles, Authentic and Imperfect" Facebook group recently cracked open a very old wound. Someone asked the question that has been circulating in midlife LDS singles spaces for years: why are LDS men not choosing LDS women? The thread that followed was long,
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The Loophole Is Not the Same Thing as Integrity
A woman posted anonymously in the LDS Dating Midsingles Facebook group on June 9th and asked something that apparently a lot of people have been thinking but not saying out loud. She had noticed a pattern: some LDS men seem to move the goalposts on physical boundaries whenever it'