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Thanks, guys. I didn't plan on following up with this, but just wanted to leave contact info. Should anyone wish to contact me directly, you can email me at lurvetheoneyourewith at gmail dot com. Thanks again! Over.

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For the present, I am taking a breather. I had a frank discussion with DW after GC, and we agreed to a compromise of sorts. My intention had been to let my TR lapse but to still try to be supportive in any way I could while maintaining a semblance of integrity. For various reasons that was unaccepta...

InquiringMind wrote: But it might upset at least one of my roommates who, after I told him about my faith crisis two days ago, said that he wished he'd made church attendance a condition of all new roommates who'd move in.

Sigh ... Yeah, sounds like you could use a break.

Yep, some context would be helpful. What is your current motivation for staying connected? BTW, being in stage 5 and being or staying LDS are not necessarily the same thing, or even correlated. There are no hard and fast rules in the process of spiritual growth. For me this makes the journey much mo...

recent MS podcast on the topic here . I had always thought that the one year deal in the States was for legal purposes. After doing some searching on Google it appears that I thought wrong. You could get married in Washington State and then a few months later get married to that same person some pla...

Been thinking about this over the past week. My heart hurts for you just thinking about this. Yeah, there are a lot of worse things that can happen to people, but a broken heart just plain sucks. Top that off with intimations that this was really the hand of god effectively stabbing you in the back,...

I would rather be in a Elder's Quorum being taught over High Priests anyday.

QFT. I would looove to be able to go back to EQ. But I know what you mean. It does seem kind of arbitrary and unnecessarily hierarchical.

My daughter came out with something the other day that made me realize something. When she learns who I REALLY AM, she's going to be really deflated. She has me on this huge pedestal. But when she learns I'm not what she thinks I am, I'm afraid it'll rock her world. Any advice on how to deal with t...

Welcome from a fellow agnostic deist.

To be honest, some days I wish the Strengthening the Members Committee would come knocking on my door. It would make life so much simpler.