We raised 2 wonderful children who are now happy and successful adults. Either way, if you have kids and you don't convert, she will divorce you and take your kids away from you and you will be shunned from her community. The Mormon university BYU is quickly falling due to these feminists. I forgot to add, that if you marry and alow your children to be raised as Mormon, chances are you wont be able to be at their wedding because it will be in the temple. As an atheist with Buddhist undertones who married a non-practicing, god-believing Mormon at the height of his questioning, I find this so interesting to me. If you marry him, you are committing to accepting him without the church and all that this entails. Marriage is unbelievably amazing and indescribably painful; I have been at it for 28 years with my soul mate. I've only seen him 3 times. Because if you can't live and let live, you both need to dive deep into this stuff and figure out what you believe and want in your life.
Thanks so much for all the time you've put into your replies. One red flag I have for Mormon girls is if they drink coffee. Just talk to her honestly, and if you have to, use the old wonder of logic. If you have children how will they be raised. To find another job, a more family oriented one, move to another more financially friendly state we are in California and have a fresh start.
Now after reading this blog I feel like I made the right choice. I had many extremely hurtful things said to me, along with an intervention hosted by my married-in-the-temple-and-divorced grandmother. Not leaving 5 minutes early to drop you off - 15 minutes could get problematic, but five?. Medscape App Get fast, accurate answers for point-of-care decision making. He may never want anything to do with Mormons or the church again. My dream in life as cliche as it sounds is to be happy, and to raise a family - be one of those home mums who goes to school meetings, and award nights, and bakes cakes for their kids school fares. As Joanne mentioned, should you marry interfaith, you will have lots of help from fellow ward members on converting your spouse. For our differences in work field I am from non medical background we stay in different cities and hardly get to spend quality time together. But the loneliness and the hours ER shifts are taken everything I had left in me. The day could come where she has to decide between her relationship with you and her church.
But she probably is more in love with the idea of you, than with you. Next year we are getting married but I already see a tough life ahead of me. TwoXChromosomes subscribe unsubscribe 11, readers 6, users here now Welcome to TwoXChromosomes, a subreddit for both serious and silly content, and intended for women's perspectives. She is going to dump you. But the idea of marrying my husband felt right from almost the get-go and, my patriarchal blessing made so much more sense.