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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
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As frequent contributor to a Facebook Group we follow, Steve posted something in a midsingles Facebook group this week that made us both stop scrolling. He's 52 and single, and he wrote about going to Costco and standing in the bacon aisle — thick cut, low-salt, turkey bacon, pre-cooked
Dating Skills
A frequent contributor named Steve posted something in a midsingles Facebook group this past week that caught our attention. He had recently joked about going on strike from dating altogether, and then, being a genuinely curious person, decided to turn his frustration into a question for the community. He asked:
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Impact of Religious Trauma Series: The Unchaperoned Life | Post 1 of 6 I was five years old when I learned I was trash. Not metaphorically. Not as a passing frustration someone immediately walked back. I was told I deserved to be thrown away — and to make the lesson stick, I
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Impact of Religious Trauma Series: The Unchaperoned Life | Post 2 of 6 She was everything the church ever told me to look for. Faithful. Devoted. A mother who clearly adored her kids. A woman whose social media feed — over six years of staying loosely in touch — told a consistent story
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Impact of Religious Trauma Series: The Unchaperoned Life | Post 3 of 6 She stopped letting him hug her. Not because she didn't want to be held. She was desperate to be held. But every hug had become a down payment on something she hadn't agreed to
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Impact of Religious Trauma Series: The Unchaperoned Life | Post 4 of 6 I want to say something that men in this situation almost never say. I wasn't ready. Not for what she needed. Not for what she was asking. Not for the thing she had every right to