advice-column
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.
Faith & Dating
Navigating dating after a faith-based marriage
advice-column
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.
advice-column
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.
advice-column
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.
advice-column
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
advice-column
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.
advice-column
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.
advice-column
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'
advice-column
When "Active" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
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
advice-column
5/28/26: When "How Long Do I Have to Wait?" Is the Wrong Question
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
advice-column
5/27/2026 - Is a "Barbie Figure" a Deal-Breaker? Wrong Question. Better One Below.
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.
blog
When the Inquisition Comes for You
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.