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The cool thing is, my husband has never tried to change me but his example makes me want to be a better person.

^ I never understood the "better half" mentality in marriages. I always thought two people are meant to feel equal. But after marrying my husband, I totally get it, he is by far my better half. His patience and kindness are unmatched. I know he could have met and married a woman much more patient and kind than myself but he chose me It's awesome!

I'm always fascinated by these kinds of stories. Knowing someone for that long but not making a connection until later in life.

That's pretty comical, haha.

That's why you just need to set a date and meet the person if you're interested. Pictures can be deceiving, in many ways, making someone look better or worse than they might normally do.

We got some new faces around here since our last thread on this, which, I think I posted two or three years ago. But even if you answered before, feel free to share again, especially if it's a good story! So, how did you meet your significant other? To add, was there an instant connection, or did that spark take its time? I was with a group of girl friends in Las Vegas for Superbowl weekend when I met my now-husband. We happened to be staying at the same hotel and ran into each other in the lobby area. He asked me out to dinner one night and I went. I remember one of my friends taking his mugshot and a pic of his plate on her phone in case he was a psychopath, ha. At the time he lived in Salt Lake City and I lived in southern Utah, so we did long distance dating for a few months before I moved up north, and just before the year ended we got married.

Peter Piper

The culinary in this thread is powerful.

Nate Drake

Looks like I'm gonna try and tackle Dutch but I don't have high hopes that I'll be any good. We shall see..

Paddington. My family enjoyed it. Cute and silly, perfect for little ones, especially. Might not be a cuppa for older kids but a good movie for just about everyone. CGI is pretty good, too.

I never used an LDS dating site but I have tried non-LDS dating sites and it might be surprising to hear that I have met some decent men on there. Certainly, there are a lot of weirdos online, to put it nicely... On a positive, just remember that there are plenty of people out there just like yourself, who are looking for a genuine connection and not just a convenient fling. You might run into a few frogs along the way but they're out there. For me personally, when I was doing the online dating thing for a bit, I didn't spend much time chatting online. I'd do some but I wanted to meet the person "in person" and not spend weeks or months of just chatting. That's me though. I have met guys that were awesome conversationalists online but in person were not anything like that, and I have met the opposite, guys that weren't read well online but in person were great company.

Weeding out is an expression, Anatess. I'm sure you knew that.

Thanks, JAG. I will just leave her page alone and not venture to it but will keep her as a friend on FB for now.

This is what I've lived by. I've never unfriended someone on FB. This would be my first.

I don't know that I'm close enough with her anymore to have that discussion but maybe that answers my own question. She did a suicide photoshoot a bit ago but it was supposedly to bring awareness to that heartbreaking issue. She had links and whatnot at the bottom of her site. But the recent project just had big disclaimers on it: GRAPHIC which I figured was just more of her morbid dead body pics. Was mistaken.

I wouldn't cry over not having any further contact with her but I feel like I might be overreacting a bit because I'm potentially cutting her off for something I find distasteful. I have been pretty offended by some other posts of friends (LGBT discussions is one) but I never axed them over it. I guess I'm just trying to figure out where my line is.

Real life. I we went to high school together. She lives in a different state now.

What criteria do you use to weed out your social circle? I have a friend that is an aspiring artist and her focus is grim dark photography. She has always been a free expressive spirit, and as such, I'm trying to make a decent judgment call without overreacting - she's always been edgy. I don't normally snoop through friends' FB albums but last night I decided to see what's going on in her neck of the woods. Her latest photography project is extremely controversial and I'm trying to figure out if that's reason enough to weed her out. I don't normally weed out people based on different lifestyles or views but this one has me debating. The album depicted torture and rape. It was quite shocking. And she was the model in that shoot. She had not done something like this before in other photoshoots. She mostly does morbid death poses and such. I suppose I could just avoid checking out her page but I guess the damage has been done. I'm not sure I like having that associated with my own page, even if distantly. Before I paint her to be a weirdo, which she'll agree that she is, I must add that otherwise my interactions with her have always been pleasant. We pal'd around in high school. So thoughts on whether to drop the axe, or just keep her around but avoid her page? Like I said, I don't normally axe people for different outlooks but maybe this is one that I do? I don't axe my Righty friends that have anti-Obama posts, even though it bugs me. Or friends that post on their updates: "Went to my first strip club for my bachelorette party!" So am I just being picky about this one?

Hmm. I am leaning towards agreeing with Anatess and CatholicLady, in terms of, intent does change morality. When a man goes to war to protect his home and family, and takes lives in the process, it is not murder. I guess that could be debated by some, but I suppose another concept might be if one is attacked, and the victim is able to free themselves by killing their attacker - that's not murder either, it's self defense, by intent. That's my thought process anyway.

Catching up on the posts. Very interesting discussion, though, my views differ greatly as I'm pro choice. I think I get where both sides are coming from.

Wow, I have learned a lot about how Catholics think.

Yeh, not going to have a lot of opportunity to be immersed in the language, unless it's Spanish.

Me, too.

Oh man, I dunno if I could learn Chinese. My sister took Mandarin and my dad Cantonese. But I dunno. I like the radio idea. Hadn't thought of that. Skype is doable for me.