Maybe he thinks it wouldn't be a bad idea to cheat - these women understand him. He may never want anything to do with Mormons or the church again. It almost feels like a single parent family. I got married to a Mormon woman. I would never ever choose a different path. To prevent problems from developing in the marriage over in what faith the possible children should be raised. Reading all your comments makes me feel sometimes uplifted, other times scared as hell. If he is luck to be off call during the weekend, I would sleep most of the weekends away to make up the sleep deprivation.
I don't want to stress him. Anecdotes vs a much larger sample size. The thing I worry about is the reason that we are together is that I don't want to build my own life. Nevertheless, I rarely have any trouble with setting some time aside to stay in touch with family, friends, and any woman I might be dating, as well. But I was unusual in that I never really wanted to convert my husband I was worried I'd have to divorce him if he turned true Mormon and he didn't need me to believe way he does.
I can pray for and with my youngest daughter and bless her thru prayer. As for conversion, she just spent every waking second thinking about converting people. Does he come home on time after work. We have almost daily prayers, scripture reading, and lengthy discussions about our beliefs. I could imagine all these nurses throw theirselves at him regardless he being in a relationship with me. But, as soon as the marriage happened, the Mormon spouse goes full on Orthodox and expects the non Mormon to comply.
I don't think it's going overboard, though, to state one very possible and very likely scenario, and that is that this girl may likely be completely indoctrinated and believing. Recently though she has been quite distant, although this may be due to a combination of reasons - such as family sickness and now being on nights. Many men have begun leaving the Church in their early twenties as the mission has become more important. I also studied his advice for approaching and dating women. I have been that crazy lady with four kids alone at everything, school events, home events, church events. So basically we were lies to for years. Needless to say, my life is a little bit crazy. Many others have asked the same question in the past so you may want to find those and read the responses there. My 2 younger children are entering middle school soon. This is my first and last attempt to write on a forum for relationship advice.
