Being engaged when getting engaged
Studying and learning more about marriage and dating is just confirming that I pretty much did all the don't's. You can hear about what not to do, but actually experiencing it and then having that to look back on and compare to, is rather effective as a learning experience and sure as heck motivates me to do something different. Knowing so blatantly what I've done wrong about it makes what the right thing to do stand out more. So I already talked about some do’s and don’t with dating, but we’ve now transitioned into engagement and marriage. I think I mentioned it before but the common dating trend is to slide into everything without taking the appropriate steps and defining the relationship. Same things go with engagement. I’ve always noticed that LDS proposals and the process of engagement are different from what you see as the “typical “ proposal. It appears that half the time it’s a big surprise for the girl. Whereas for us(and with the ridiculous dating trends we...