Life will chuck all sorts of bouncers at you. I've been married over 4 years to a 1st year GI fellow. As for the Mormon cohort he will be exposed to, I have two thoughts: And so far as I could tell, it worked and no one tried to drag her husband into the church.
When he does, he is often quiet and exhausted. Raising our children as believers is proving to be very tricky. Trust your instincts and your spiritual promptings. These same principles have helped build strong, successful religious communities for thousands of years. Why do we not talk about Heavenly Mother. Your post could have been written by me, in August. Seems some lonely trolls out there too based on above commentor. If this is the case, she definitely can be reprogrammed and awakened. My 16 year old daughter told her Bishop who made that comment, that she thought her dad was great just the way he was. Now I look at his job and his schedule and his tiredness as a part of both of our lives, rather than something that is just his life that I have to deal with.
I think she felt that it was important for me to understand the types of challenges in an interfaith marriage. Posts from people who have your same problem occur on a regular basis here on RFM. Would she want you to attend church with her. I believe when you die, you die, and you live on in memories and hearts. YOu ladies out there My soon to be fiance is a doctor, he'll be ending his internship in and maybe will do his postgraduate abroad. Again, I deeply love my dad, but these were things that I had to deal with.
So there's THAT to look forward to. It's why TBMs are so bugged by people that leave the church. If you end up marrying a true believing Mormon, your marriage will be a threesome. Congratulations on understanding that and avoiding problems. I married a non-member over 20 years ago. He probably hates even the memory of me for getting him in that stupid church. If you can't do that, realizing that your partner may never come around to your side of things, you are not ready to marry this person. Once he's out of training, though, the medical marriage is much like any other marriage and the success strategies are really all the same. He will not be permitted to bless the child in front of the ward, for instance, so you will have to choose to forego that ritual or find someone else to stand in for the father, which he may not be comfortable with.