Nice resource for mixed-faith marriage

Thanks for sharing this. I’m gonna put it on my to do pile. :thumbup:

The couple who run the FB group are really cool. They have somehow managed the transition well enough to have become living leaders. I too will throw it on my pile and hopefully we can have a discussion over here about it.

Thanks LH

I would love to. I don’t know the % of people here are in a mixed faith marriage (I know several are not married). I spend most of my time now trying to figure out just how to come out first to my wife (at least much more than I do now). There are other issues like my child that is still at home that is fairly TBM, but mainly because most all his close friends are TBM’s. I fear that me coming out a bit to the ward might affect him if it causes him to be shunned a bit. And that could play into my wife’s feelings towards me (“Your lack of faith has messed up our child!”) I am glad to see this support group for the believing spouse. I do see the need for this and I want to make this as less tumultuous as possible for my wife especially, but also for my family.

The couple who run the FB group are really cool. They have somehow managed the transition well enough to have become living leaders. I too will throw it on my pile and hopefully we can have a discussion over here about it.

Thanks LH

I would love to. I don’t know the % of people here are in a mixed faith marriage (I know several are not married). I spend most of my time now trying to figure out just how to come out first to my wife (at least much more than I do now). There are other issues like my child that is still at home that is fairly TBM, but mainly because most all his close friends are TBM’s. I fear that me coming out a bit to the ward might affect him if it causes him to be shunned a bit. And that could play into my wife’s feelings towards me (“Your lack of faith has messed up our child!”) I am glad to see this support group for the believing spouse. I do see the need for this and I want to make this as less tumultuous as possible for my wife especially, but also for my family.

Thanks LH for sharing this. I find it so refreshing that some couples and families can continue to have great relationships even when one partner is very believing and another isn’t. I would also love to have a discussion about mixed-faith marriage (or mixed-orthodoxy marriage). This has been and continues to be a significant strain on my marriage and my mental health, even though I am quite orthoprax and very few know of my lack of belief.

On a related note, I just ran across this BCC post about The Best Way to Prove People Who Leave the Church Wrong. Although we here at StayLDS are not looking to leave the church, many of us struggle with unorthodox beliefs and fitting in at Church and the same ideas apply:

https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/04/11/the-best-way-to-prove-people-who-leave-the-church-wrong/

You and I seem to have quite a bit in common.

And did you see that the blog post has >100 comments already. I told my SP about a year ago that I would be willing to give a talk in the saturday night stake conference meeting about how to respond to those with questions or that have left. I told him I would allow him to vet the talk word by word. I told him it would be talking a bit about http://rationalfaiths.com/you-belong/” class=”bbcode_url”>http://rationalfaiths.com/you-belong/ He said it didn’t fit into the “theme” (and he was right), but he has not taken me up on it yet.