I'd at least insist that at 12 the kids can choose to disaffiliate. But realistically, if she is not open minded enough to even listen to someone who has a contrasting view of the church - how will she not continually discount you and your lack of beliefs. The dots are extremely close for every LDS person, its just extremely hard to connect them. Anonymous, you are right.
Like you I grew up with and taught the standard LDS beliefs about temple marriage, celestial kingdom, etc. Even after that, the Church discourages youth from entering serious relationships before they are considering marriage. With that same attitude they will rise up on the other side of the veil. Pay for the first few dates. She might want to follow the 'virgin until marriage' part, or she may personally decide to forego following that in secret. It made me sad to think that the thing that was most important my life в my faith в was something that I could never fully share with my husband. Keep your power, girls, and keep the marriage egalitarian.
My question is, my 30th birthday weekend is coming up and when I mentioned it to him he informed me that an old friend from college's wedding was that weekend and that he wanted to go. We attempted to date back when I was in undergrad and he was in med school, and it went nowhere -- mostly because I was young, immature, self-centered and your typical spazzy college kid at that point. For me this has been an opportunity to increase my love, tolerance, compassion and acceptance. So I came across this blog and I was hoping you ladies could give me some advice. On the other hand, if you believe God is bigger than we can imagine, and is not constrained by religious dogma, you have as good a chance as any at a happy, thriving relationship. Due to their religious teachings, Mormons do not smoke, drink alcohol or caffeinated "hot drinks" coffee or tea [13]or do drugs. Additionally, you need to take stock of your beliefs and acknowledge they may change overtime.
I think your response is Bang on. A lot of people will tell you to run but if she is in her late 20s most Mormon guys her age are married. You and your fiancee might want to get in touch with one to work out the day-to-day issues of an interfaith marriage. Like, she thought that serving would remedy her of any doubts or testimony issues. Because you are a good person, you will recognize the influence of the Holy Ghost and know that the church is true. I hope that makes sense. 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. Also, they are encouraged to date in groups and not pair off alone, so if your date insists on the same, then agree politely. And generally those people seem to have great difficulty in breaking off the relationship, even though they are told that it is a dead-end situation that will cause them big trouble in the future.