Attachment & Healing
On March 26th, someone posted a poll in the LDS Dating - Midsingles group. 4 options. Simple question. "When you hear 'I'm not sure I want to get married again,' what do you assume it means?" Option A: Keeping options open. Option B: Doesn&
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A post in the LDS Dating Midsingles group last week lit up the feed in a way that felt very familiar. A woman posted a pointed, plainly worded question: why are so many men hitting 40 still choosing their mothers over a potential wife? She cited scripture. She named the
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There is a version of this story that plays out quietly, without drama, in thousands of LDS homes. No affairs. No cruelty. No villain. Just two young people who got married because everyone around them made it feel like the only reasonable next step, and who then spent the next
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Scott Turing and Laurie Pascal, Unchaperoned Life We've been reading the LDS Dating - Midsingles group for a while now. Thirty-five thousand members. Hundreds of posts every month. Thousands of comments. Posts about what men want. Posts about who should text first. Posts about shallow dating pools and
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Scott Turing and Laurie Pascal, Unchaperoned Life In March 2026, someone in the LDS Dating - Midsingles group asked members to describe their current dating life using an 80s song title. The post got 361 reactions and 360 comments. It was the single most engaged post of the entire month
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Scott Turing and Laurie Pascal, Unchaperoned Life In March 2026, something interesting happened in our community. A man in our community posted a six-point list of what he said "men want" in a relationship quality woman. It got 475 reactions and 600 comments. Then another man responded with
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Scott Turing and Laurie Pascal, Unchaperoned Life A few weeks ago, someone in an LDS midsingles group asked a deceptively simple question: "What lessons have you learned from your dating life?" The post got 198 comments—nearly 200 people lining up to share what years of dating, disappointment,
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Scott Turing and Laurie Pascal, Unchaperoned Life Earlier this week in a Dating group on Facebook, a woman named Sami posted a dark purple image with a single question in white text: "What is a red flag you ignored before that you would never ignore now?" Sixty-seven comments
Faith & Dating
In the Facebook group, a man named Aaron posted a simple red image with five words on it: "If you want to get married, why?" That's it. No story, no setup. Just the question. Nearly 200 comments followed. And what emerged wasn't one answer.
Dating After Divorce
A few days ago, a woman named Courtney posted a meme in a Facebook group for mid-single members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was simple, funny, and devastatingly accurate. "Dating after divorce is weird," it read. "I don't know how
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Someone posted four words on a brown background in a midsingles Facebook group last week. What's worse than living alone? Two hundred and seventy-four people answered. And honestly? The responses were more honest than most Sunday School lessons combined. There was the woman who said she slept soundly
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There's a moment that happens on a lot of first dates that nobody talks about. Two reasonably decent humans sit across from each other. Both are a little nervous. Both are secretly hoping this one might be different. Both are also — if they're honest — waiting for