I don't think I'm eligible to advice, but I would say be prepared to be independent and make lots of friends. This post and the comments are an eye opener. We are now in Residency, have moved each year and started a new adventure each year since marriage. He sees around 50 patients a day and is always tired when gets home n wants peace and quiet. As I started to date and fall in love with my husband, almost everyone I knew was against it.
I wish you the best. In our church, women are treated with more respect, and are considered to have a literal free ticket to heaven, simply bu because their female. He believes in God, but also believes that God is everywhere, and therefore does not need to be worshipped in a specific place of worship with specific prayers. Hopefully they have some say in it, but I'm speaking about other churchgoers' expectations here, and probably your wife's. She went to BYU and did a 2 year mission, but since she was a girl she got to have a car instead of a bicycle. Top Posts Do Mormons believe people can become gods. I'm worried this nightmare journey has destroyed my sense of self and confidence. I was happy to read your blog. I felt like I was 'on call' for when he would be available to see me.
You just need to figure out where your girlfriend is. As a Christian one's values won't allow an affair on the lonely spouse' part either - but that probably won't bug you by the sounds of it. I can't take it. I know a non-Mormon guy who married a Mormon woman and has kept her beautiful and desirable, by encouraging her religious involvement, even though he avoided Mormonism himself. I've already approached him like a million times to ask why he has been distant with me but now I'm realising it's his work load but he doesn't want to admit it's a lot for him. It has to do with their character.
However, I'm going to show him your post tonight and hopefully he will agree that it's worth a try. In areas with lots of single Mormons of dating and marriageable age, the Church has established singles wards. You can't gamble on her seeing Mormonism for the shit show that it is. And those women are very replaceable to them. Much more, since I am having a hard time to conceive, all adds up to my frustrations.
