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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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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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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'
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A man in the LDS Dating Midsingles Facebook group posted a question last month that generated 440 comments, 43 reactions, and no small amount of chaos. The question, accompanied by a graphic, was simple enough: "What is an instant red flag in a woman, no matter how pretty she
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Someone in the LDS Dating Midsingles group posted a simple prompt recently: "What is the most important question to ask on a first date?" It came with a cheerful graphic of a couple at a table. The post collected 244 comments. The thread did not go the direction