I Didn’t Serve A Mission, Will Mormon Women Still Date Me? | Ask Angela

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Dear Angela, 

I’m a decent looking guy, I attend the temple regularly, and I want to get married there. I don’t date Mormon girls though because I didn’t serve a mission and that conversation of, “Where did you serve” is always a difficult one that makes me feel regret and guilt. From your objective perspective do I have any hope of finding a Mormon woman with this “no missionary service” mark on my record?

Not an RM

Dear Not an RM, 

Yes, really the only thing probably keeping you from not finding a Mormon woman is the fact that you aren’t dating them. The past is gone, and people (most people, anyway) are really just looking for someone who will love them and help them live a better life. So you need to let go of the past and ask some sistas out. #RealTalk

Love, 

Angela

What to do when your little sis gets married first

Author Whitney Boyd (right) and younger sister Caitlin (left) are still friends even though Caitlin broke their marriage pact!

My sister is two and a half years younger than me. Growing up, whenever we thought about “being old and being married”, we always assumed that we would marry brothers on the same day and then live in New York together where we would attend Broadway plays and be cultured and live in next door apartments and eat sushi every night. Ridiculous? Or ridiculously amazing, I don’t know. Either way, we had it all planned out.

We were on the right track when I left at 21 years old on my mission, an 18 month volunteer opportunity in Salt Lake City. My sister was dating a guy, Camden*, who was about to leave on his own mission… AND he had a brother, Clark, a guy my age who I had known in high school. My sister was planning on waiting. The brother was writing me while attending university. Our creepy incredible lifeplan was unfolding perfectly.

Six months before I returned home, I got Dear John’d… but not by Clark.