You aren't engaged or married or anything, you can't just know that she won't see the light and remain crazy Mormon forever. Too often, I think, priesthood holders think that being overly controlling, they are simply wielding their authority in the home. She was masterful at hiding the cuts and bruises with clothing. But wait a minute. Second, in my experience mormons have been some of the kindest people I've ever had the privilege to know, and they have not lived up to the cult image you describe. I prayed about whether to marry this man, and I felt and still feel strongly that it was right for me. Nobody has prepared her for one, definitely haven't prepared her for a healthy physical relationship. She's a wonderful person and I think we could work, so yes.
I let her know it's not healthy to expect someone else to change - we can only control ourselves and not others. Thanks for the Blog. She is instructed to have children within wedlock very soon, raise these children in a Mormon home, and devote hours each week to church activities plus Sabbath observance on Sunday. No lie he is so very loving and caring understands me feeling,but I must say loving and dating a doctor is really hard. Mormonism is fundamental to my religious beliefs and my personal sense of identity, and it is the community that I identify with most strongly. I went in thinking "oh, we can definitely do this. Almost everything is complicated. On the plus side though, after you leave the church, you'll get to spend the remainder of your days bashing it on Reddit. Thanks for sharing your story. And after dating a few months we both knew we wanted to get married.
I will keep reading, but it looks like most of the stuff about racism and polygamy has been "adequately" explained away by updates to LDS. I've heard way too many stories of people breaking up with amazing people and they end up alone or in a less happy relationship. When my nomo husband does go to church we discuss the talks.
Every bishop, new set of missionaries, home teacher, etc. She found the perfect Mormon guy, they were married in the temple. I just graduated college and my boyfriend has one more year. I do not see this going well. There are a great many beliefs I can't condone but most of them are along the lines of gender stereotyping, and how you apply that to your own life obviously varies by individual. Take the missionary lessons, read the Book of Mormon and the Bible.