Category: LDS & Mixed-Faith Relationships
Latter-day Saint marriage culture and mixed-faith relationships across the spectrum.
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LDS Marriage Counseling vs. Talking with Your Bishop: What Each Can (and Can’t) Do
Bishops and therapists do different jobs. A licensed LMFT on when ecclesiastical counsel helps, when a marriage needs clinical care, and how to use both well.
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Protecting Intimacy When One of You Stops Believing
Faith transition changes a couple’s sexual relationship in ways almost nobody talks about. A licensed sex-and-marriage therapist on keeping — and often deepening — intimacy across a belief divide.
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How to Tell Your Kids (and the Ward) About a Faith Transition
Scripts, timing, and boundaries for one of the hardest parts of leaving or questioning the Church — telling your children, your parents, and your ward.
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My Spouse Left the LDS Church — Now What?
For the believing partner in the first raw months after a spouse steps away from the Church — what helps, what backfires, and how marriages come through this stronger.
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Daniel Burgess Shares his Journey in Reshaping Sexual Health within the LDS Community
Daniel A. Burgess LMFT is in the hot seat in this episode as the author of Earthly Parents: And It Was Very Good: A Latter-day Saint’s Guide to Lovemaking (by the book!) asks the questions. Daniel shares his journey in reshaping sexual health within the LDS Community, and how faithful LDS can improve their sexual…
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My Son Is Not Baptized And That Is Okay
My son isn’t baptized. I’m okay with that and he hasn’t missed out on any blessings. My son’s mother has refused to provide permission for his baptism, and I’m not only okay with that, I support her decision. I wasn’t okay with it at first. When his mother and I decided to separate, I knew…
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Because I Loved Her, I Left Her
Anonymous Question Series: The following two questions are so similar that I chose to include them both in this response. I will be speaking in terms of divorce, but these concepts are equally applicable to “break ups” before marriage and within engagements. Q: When do you suggest that a problematic/troubled partnership separate? Or stay together?…
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Marrying Outside Of Faith
Anonymous Question Series: The following two questions are so similar that I chose to include them both in this response. Q: I met a man who is generous, grateful, patient and compassionate but knew nothing about my faith, which is important for me. Is happiness possible with such a person who does not believe in…
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