Navigating dating after a faith-based marriage
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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 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 woman in the LDS Dating - Midsingles Facebook group posted something that clearly struck a nerve. She wanted to know why inactive men, with no intention of becoming active, keep reaching out to her when her profile explicitly states she's looking for active LDS members. The frustration
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A post appeared in the LDS Dating Midsingles group this week that cut straight to the bone. A man asked, essentially, how long a spouse has to withhold sex before it becomes acceptable to seek "alternative avenues." The post gathered 93 comments in a matter of hours. The
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Someone in an LDS Dating - Midsingles Facebook group posted a question recently — framed, as these things often are, as "asking for a friend." The question: would a non-Barbie figure be a deal-breaker for men in the group? Nearly 200 comments arrived before anyone could catch their breath.
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An anonymous Facebook post about dating exhaustion recently turned into a vicious moral purity spiral. What happened in that thread wasn't an anomaly. It was a perfect, real-time demonstration of Worthiness Culture... and data shows is hemorrhaging the church's most devoted members.
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I asked her 'are we over?' after we'd already worked it out. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. 'When I work it out, I move on.' It was the first time in my life I'd seen what real forgiveness actually looks like.
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You stopped praying because it felt like a lie. Science says that was the most expensive thing you gave up. You didn't have to lose it. 🙏
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Good Job. Temple Recommend. Emotionally Mature. As a collective entry requirement for a first conversation, it functions as a job posting. And men who don't think they'll get the job don't apply.
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An anonymous man posted to the LDS Dating - Midsingles Facebook group this week and the thread exploded into 135 comments. He had been dating a woman for over a year. She is kind, faithful, deeply in love with him, and by his own description, pretty. They are engaged. The
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We are creating our first cohort of midlife singles for our "Second Spring" program. Thoughtful. Serious. Fun. 8 weeks. Midlife singles who are actually doing the work and finding connection. Apply now.
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A researcher studied why women are so hard on each other. Then we thought about your ward. The findings are uncomfortable, familiar, and worth every word.