In each case, you should also consider how this will affect your families. Like you, I didn't marry for the paycheck wouldn't have done me any good. I know "Meet the Mormons" isn't what I'm looking for I went through a very similar experience earlier this year and the community was extremely helpful. If you stay together l, you are going to have to remind her of that commitment. Right now she won't even watch a movie. Welcome to Reddit, the front page of the internet. If he's in year 1 of the residency, he's got probably years left finishing residency then fellowship. There are some gems like admission to peep stone in a hat translation to the book of Mormon and angels with swords commanding polygamy, but if someone believes Joseph Smith really did stuff his face into a hat and translate scriptures about ancient jews coming to America, it means they are insane, and you can't reason with an insane person.
In my experience, life-long member, many Mormons have difficulty thinking outside the box, and putting forth effort to inclue and love. But those days may be gone. Mormon decried it was all a lie, an anti mormon lie. Living in an interfaith, marriage can be hell. Doesn't leave many options here though but better than constantly having them push the church on you until you either give in and convert or break up. Would they have stayed in the church if dad was a member.
I would not have wanted to be dismissed as crazy and unworthy of attention when I was still a member, because it wouldn't have been true. Take your date to a club with loud music and an open bar, or an R-rated or violent movie, and the prospects of it going well are daunting. The hardworking doctors won't even get the time or energy for affairs. The divorce factor may allow some women to experience single-faith marriage at some point as some Mormon men marry multiple Mormon women over the course of their lifetimes, but the overall point stands: The only options for these women involve seeking a partner outside of the church, or a lifetime of celibacy. It sucks but ultimately what Mormonism does to people is it makes them value adherence to church more than their relationships with people. BUT it could easily have gone the other way. She was fine marrying in an LDS church instead of the temple, didn't want to convert me, and most importantly didn't try to change my beliefs or opinions. You should ask Him what you should do, as no one else can see the end from the beginning and no one else has perfect love for you and for your potential husband.
For example, the irish, polish and the italians basically intermarried. She said we couldn't watch it because the lady who produced the doc was formerly a professor at BYU but has since left the church, so she wouldn't have anything good to say. You just can't imagine the heap o' hurt you're potentially setting yourself up for. I am often kind of waiting around until the last minute for him to contact me and let me know when he's free or I have to pursue him, which doesn't make me feel like he's very into me. Every bishop, new set of missionaries, home teacher, etc.
