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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Etiquette of the Block
You don't owe an explanation to someone who is making you feel unsafe. Scott and Laurie break down the difference between ghosting and guarding your perimeter.
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The Mirror You Keep Refusing to Look At
A post went up recently in the LDS Dating Midsingles group on Facebook that pulled 40 reactions and 105 comments in the first 2 hours. It was posted anonymously, which, honestly, tracks. The man who wrote it spent several paragraphs cataloguing his credentials: the 60 pounds he has lost, the
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Why Are LDS Men Not Choosing LDS Women? (And Why That Question Is Only Half the Story)
A post in the "LDS Mid Singles, Authentic and Imperfect" Facebook group recently cracked open a very old wound. Someone asked the question that has been circulating in midlife LDS singles spaces for years: why are LDS men not choosing LDS women? The thread that followed was long,
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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'
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The Red Flag Question That Revealed More About the Men Than the Women
A man in the LDS Dating Midsingles Facebook group posted a question last month that generated 440 comments, 43 reactions, and no small amount of chaos. The question, accompanied by a graphic, was simple enough: "What is an instant red flag in a woman, no matter how pretty she
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The Most Important First-Date Question Is Not "Are You Married?"
Someone in the LDS Dating Midsingles group posted a simple prompt recently: "What is the most important question to ask on a first date?" It came with a cheerful graphic of a couple at a table. The post collected 244 comments. The thread did not go the direction