Posted on 04/25/2015 5:33:09 PM PDT by Colofornian
...let me say just a bit more about...marriage. This may sound a little bit bold to urge marriage for those...past the marriageable age;...we are shocked to know that some men are delaying marriage until their later thirties or into their forties, and they have never talked of marriage.
[SNIP]
...I have a letter here from a sister that pinpoints something...these girls are going through...There is a man who has been dating her for years and he comes especially at meal time...
Here is another one who says, “I am a 40-year-old single woman.” Another one says, “I am a 30-year-old single woman.”...they all say about the same thing...“For the past year and a half I have been dating a fellow who is 33. We see each other almost every day...I have tried to terminate the relationship, but it seems to drag on. There is no commitment; realistically, there is also very little hope.”
[SNIP]
I think that is enough to give you the other side of the story from the girls who are frustrated. All women have a desire for companionship. They want to be wives; they want to be mothers; and when men refuse to assume their responsibility of marriage, for no good reason, they are unable to consummate marriage. Brethren, we are not doing our duty as holders of the priesthood when we go beyond the marriageable age and withhold ourselves from an honorable marriage to these lovely women, who are seeking the fulfillment of a woman’s greatest desire to have a husband, a family, and a home.
[SNIP]
...remember, brethren, that only those who enter into the new and everlasting covenant of marriage in the temple for time and eternity, only those will have the exaltation in the celestial kingdom. That is what the Lord tells us.
(Excerpt) Read more at lds.org ...
You left out Colofornian, who still has it on her screen.
“before post number 3 was deleted & can quote part of it back 2u”
OK, freep mail it to me...
I ask her to send me the post in private mail...
In the meanwhile you can quit pestering me, except to apologize.
Your post #3 was removed for profanity on the Religion Forum.
It was posted at 6:45 Mountain time.
Discuss the issues, do not make it personal.
Making the thread about your disagreements is making it personal.
Would you please privately send me the content of this “post#3”. I don’t recall even reading this thread, much the lest posting to it...
bfl
dun...
Now do you recall typing it?
(I just sent it to babygene, rm)
“Anyway, “nice” sidelining of this thread to either...
...totally unrelated content”
It wasn’t unrelated content. The fact is that men are not anxious to marry a woman who has a 50% chance of walking off with the next hot guy she comes across. And leaving the first to pay the bills.
The whole concept of “no fault divorce” has been a disaster for the wife, the husband and the kids.
As a Catholic (married to the same woman for 47 years), we don’t do that...
This got turned into a very weird thread.
What wasn't unrelated - the post that you repeatedly claimed that you didn't make and couldn't have made?
Pretty revealing thread.
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