Navigating dating after a faith-based marriage
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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.
Religious Trauma
What if the pressure to remarry quickly after divorce is the same operating system that produced the wrong marriage in the first place?
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A post in the LDS Dating — Midsingles Facebook group earlier this month asked a simple question: "Can we, or should we, pursue relationships with those who have opposing political or religious beliefs?" 39 people reacted. 348 people commented. That ratio tells you something. When a post gets 10
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A woman I know recently went on a date with a man who, somewhere between the appetizers and the entrée, made her an offer. "Look," he said, "at our age we'll keep our finances separate anyway. So if it doesn't work out, no
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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