Maybe it was because I was so young when I made the choice, maybe it was because I was the oldest child in an extremely active family with parents that just expected me to be a shining example to the younger kids. I wish I know things better and would have taken a different path in life. That I will be expected to be a full time single parent most of the time. My mother now uses her time in saving stray dogs and helping the poor while my father is away which is everyday. The gold is in the footnotes and sources linked from those new essays.
Which even the kind ones are. I got to thinking about how I and others in my ward might react if a same sex couple attended church and how those views might WILL, fingers crossed change over the next decade. Before I met my husband I had dated quite a few members and some relationships were quite serious but I never felt right about it.
If you are all sealed together, you will be together forever in the Celestial Kingdom. She will be oh-so-grateful if you do not pressure her to discard those values. Eventually you will get engaged and married and have babies and buy a house together. There's a reason so many Utahns are on anti depressants and anti anxiety meds. In other words, eternal marriage really is worth it, I think.
Neither of our children ever considered medicine as a career after seeing how much their dad missed out on. I kept thinking things would get better at some point, but they didn't. Her beliefs are innocous but ultimately a death sentence for this relationship. It seems she'll expect you to become Mormon. My wife chose me, but most people aren't so lucky. Develop Your Own Curriculum. It's the extra socializing, hanging out with residents, stopping by the hospital to visit his best friend. 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.