Yeah it's been awhile since I have even thought about posting this semester has been crazy but also very insightful to my life. Now going to a school run by the LDS church (which lets face it really likes to talk about marriage to young adults my age) can be difficult especially if you are one of the few people there who don't want to get married. That was me till this semester. To understand better I am going to paint a quick picture of why I felt this way. I wasn't always against marriage in fact for awhile I wanted to get married right after my mission. I felt like I prepared enough and was ready to get married to the girl I was dating at the time. Needless to say we didn't get married and it was a really hard break up for me and I crawled
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I'm not going to lie not really. I took another break from serious dating recently and just "enjoyed" myself. Which, for the first little while was not a terrible idea, but that little while turned into three months, then half a year, then a year. Now when I took a break from serious dating I mean going on one on one dates. I would go on big group dates but I stayed away from one on ones like the plague! Anytime that a girl would even start to show interest in me I ran like Joseph from Potiphars wife.This in the long term has hindered me in dating more than helped me, which is why whenever I hear anyone talk about taking a break from dating I strongly advise that it isn't a super long period of …show more content…
for whenever that time does come for me. I want to be prepared for whenever I do meet my future wife so that one she is attracted to who I am as a person. Two so that I will be prepared to teach my future kids these principles so that they will be able to hopefully make better decisions that I did and even if they don't I'll be there giving them comfort and advice from my experiences. Now I have no clue when I am getting married and I have no idea who to, my patriarchal blessing was a little vague on that unfortunately. What I do know is that I need to be living in a way where I honor the priesthood and live in a righteous manner that invites the spirit so that when I do meet her I will know it is the right thing to do and be prepared to commit and to marry her in the
I'm not going to lie not really. I took another break from serious dating recently and just "enjoyed" myself. Which, for the first little while was not a terrible idea, but that little while turned into three months, then half a year, then a year. Now when I took a break from serious dating I mean going on one on one dates. I would go on big group dates but I stayed away from one on ones like the plague! Anytime that a girl would even start to show interest in me I ran like Joseph from Potiphars wife.This in the long term has hindered me in dating more than helped me, which is why whenever I hear anyone talk about taking a break from dating I strongly advise that it isn't a super long period of …show more content…
for whenever that time does come for me. I want to be prepared for whenever I do meet my future wife so that one she is attracted to who I am as a person. Two so that I will be prepared to teach my future kids these principles so that they will be able to hopefully make better decisions that I did and even if they don't I'll be there giving them comfort and advice from my experiences. Now I have no clue when I am getting married and I have no idea who to, my patriarchal blessing was a little vague on that unfortunately. What I do know is that I need to be living in a way where I honor the priesthood and live in a righteous manner that invites the spirit so that when I do meet her I will know it is the right thing to do and be prepared to commit and to marry her in the