Notify me of new posts via email. I really hadn't considered a lot of the points people have brought up. When I hear some of the issues going on in Mormon Land, I usually say to myselfв. So, now I'm battling interview season with the fourth year dates and beginning of residency with the labor day date. She's too heavily invested in Mormonism for that. Wow just found this blog and for the first time am in mid's feel some support as an MD's wife of 30 years who is socially isolated he has very few friendsgetting despondent, bitter and resentful due to having some expectations which are met with constant disappointment. Dont aggressively try to destroy her faith but bring up philosophical thinking points. If you both comfortable having different faiths, your relationship can still be rewarding and fulfilling. If you are in a movie theater, you can't talk, so you can't get to know the girl you are dating.
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. Plan on her family trying to torpedo your relationship if you don't convert. If it's the former I'm more inclined to think he's being self-centered in your relationship.
You were a banker too. You don't have to believe them yourself, but you need that respect in thought as well as action, and you need to frame this as your own journey because you can only change yourself. If you are willing to wait, then well and good; otherwise, it is best to move on. And your future kids will be taught that you are the reason they don't have an "eternal" family. If you don't want to give up, then don't.
You will buy expensive disability insurance, malpractice insurance, and life insurance to provide a snippet of comfort for the great, unknowable future. He has sacrificed parts of his career as well. I tiptoed into my current relationship with a medical student dating two years, med school is almost overand one of the first things I brought up when he was pursuing me and he pursued me HARD was that I would not be the kind of person that would date a doctor. So, we decide to take a "break" because there was so much tension and resentment in the relationship.