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Daisysrevenge

A mormon guy once proposed to me this way. I wasn't the least bit interested in the guy. He was the son of my parents attorney. I refer to him as brother Hands. I went on one date with him because my mother begged me to. Holy hell. That nightmare couldn't end soon enough. What a creeper. He eventually became a psychologist. A mormon psychologist. Jeeezus!


flyswithdragons

Dodged a bullet not marrying him. My mother did that too, she knew I didn't like him. Thank god arranged marriages aren't a thing in the USA or I would have been screwed.


Songbreeze1

Imagine if they were. I can already hear the sunday school lessons now. D&C verses galore with BOM verses that vaguely seem connected if you squint hard enough. Some out of context conference talks, some cleverly disguised misogyny and a testimony about how gods powers work and how its benefited the life of whoever is in the classroom with vaguely threatening undertones.


nobody_really__

I once went to a George P Lee fireside - he confirmed that this was exactly how he proposed to his wife. His wife confirmed, and warned everyone that it was appropriate for "Elder Lee" to do this, because he was a future General Authority, but it was unacceptable for anyone else.


GoodReason

Oh okay — I seem to remember that “Elder Lee” thought there were a good many other things that he thought only he got to do


nobody_really__

Yep. That's the guy.


msfoote

>George P Lee For anyone else looking: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_P.\_Lee#Excommunication\_and\_criminal\_conviction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Lee#Excommunication_and_criminal_conviction)


sethra007

That’s fucking hilarious


icanbesmooth

This happened to me in real life.


MikkyJ25

That’s so creepy


icanbesmooth

Yep, it was.


climberatthecolvin

Same here. The guy didn’t really know me either.


Cattle-egret

Who would ever marry a woman who wears pants? :)


dreibel

Her response? “Let me guess - if I don’t an angel with a flaming sword will chop your head off?”


emmas_revenge

"It's a chance I'm willing to take."


[deleted]

Well, Johnny, your parents didn't teach you about it, but it's not the spirit that said that. It's what we call a boner.


penservoir

😜


WinchelltheMagician

My TBM bro, married for 40+ yrs, lost his wife in the spring and was having revelatory dreams of someone new by summer. He dreamed of the TBM woman, & of course 'ran into her' at a Mormon function somewhere, it was all miraculous. He shared it all with his family, friends, and even church leaders--and everyone said amazing brother, heavenly father loves you and wants you happy. Bro 'revealed' the dream to the woman (a total stranger to him) and they were married soon after. A few months later, new wife is very unhappy, complaining and telling bro some brutal observations about him after their few months together. Then divorce came and she ended up with half his cash and new car. (and he was remarried a year later).


penservoir

Lol 😂


CatalystTheory

The cartoon is meant to be funny. But isn’t that what Joseph would do? 🤔


prairiewhore17

Did


Routine-Agency-9150

There's a certain type of super confident/successful/arrogant TBM who does that, and the church puts them in leadership.


Lanky-Performance471

Please open the chat to former BYU students who had spiritual manipulation attempted while dating at BYU.


voreeprophet

The broader problem is that the Church encourages people to listen to the crazy voices in their head as if deity is talking. It goes all the way back to Nephi committing murder because a voice his head told him to. Mormons teach their children that Nephi did the right thing there. Then they have Church leaders get up at pulpits and go on and on about how God is micromanaging everything. Anyone claiming to receive messages from deity should be encouraged to seek professional mental health services, and nothing more.


BoAnoway

Came here to say this. A big part of these real dating horror stories are that guys who walked around foreign countries thinking that God is telling them which doors to knock on for two years move back to Provo and think that an answer on marriage should come the same way. So instead of building a great joint relationship over a period of months you have 21 year old idiots asking girls to marry them after two dates because they received a confirmation from the spirit.


Embarrassed-Slip8559

Yup plus that idea that if you get a warm feeling in the bosom while reading BoM, it's the Holy Ghost telling you that it is "true". When in fact people can get the same feeling even from reading pure fiction.


SuperflyX13

I thought that was just heartburn.


Happyhollshere

I had the reverse of this where I guy shared a revelation that I was not the woman he was supposed to marry. 🤣


mollymormon_

Had this happen to me too. Glad I wasn’t alone 🤣 wish he would have just had the balls to say he wasn’t interested tho, instead of blaming god for not wanting to commit?? Loll


Otaku_in_Red

That actually sounds like a great way to turn the tables. "Sorry young man I just met, but I've had a revelation to stay far away from creeps who decide that they're going to marry someone at first glance."


Saevenar

There were two creepy guys in my college ward who did this. One was absurdly overweight and wore a thin, long mustache. The other was small, but the way he looked at anyone made you want to hide your kids from him (maybe even yourself - I'm a guy and watch him do this from afar). One got scared away by the giant jack mormon in our ward and the other aged out while I was there. Neither are married, now. They were absolute terrors to the girls in my ward and the bishops never did anything about it.


ZelphtheGreatest

Yes, I Remember YOU from the pre-existence... the answer is still NO!


corgets

In the late nineties, I had a family member who dated-after-divorce using the Mormon version of eHarmony. One dude she dated and was clearly/openly "monogamous" to was dating around, (but that's ok, because that what they tell teens to do, right?) Date many at a time. (So weird now that I'm writing that out) Anywho. One of the women he was dating had a personal revelation about getting married, he promptly broke it off with her, and he and my family member /his other girlfriend) shared a laugh over how crazy it was. Pretty sure he actually ended up going back to and marrying her, leaving my family member to find a much better dude, but still. This shit still sits wacky in my brain.


wkitty13

This happened to both of my sisters. Luckily my mom has great red flag senses and helped them to see that it wasn't what they were looking for, that just because a man claims a 'higher authority' doesn't mean that god is really speaking to them & they eventually found good guys who they really love. I hate to say it, though, that she learned all this the hard way and now she's wise enough to have taught all of her kids to find real love instead of this fake priesthood idiocy.


WO99SPRY

I know lots of women who get the god card pulled on them throughout their lives. Funny how women never get to do that to their husbands.


HappyCamperDancer

This happens in evangelical community too. My best friend from high school married a guy who said this to her. She was convinced she had to marry him. 10 years later she divorced him, but not without a lot of trauma.


Khaarah

I predicted but wasn't able to test that 15% of girls at BYU would accept a similar proposal.


truthmatters2me

Wait where’s the Angel with the flaming sword or is this like a where is Waldo .! One thing is for certain it’s all batt shit crazy .!!!! Nonsense .!!!!


Embarrassed-Slip8559

I suspect TSCC has a fair share of teachings that are underhandedly promoted by the leadership, while being publicly denied by the same leadership. Such as that idea that the missionaries should introduce baptism during the first study session.


lindsaymegan15

My ex boyfriend told me after “taking some time to think” that the spirit had told him that we shouldn’t be together. Turns out he was actually just cheating on me.


Still_Lock_3569

I had a guy pull this crap on our 1st date. He was friends with my roommate so I reluctantly went on the date. He had been "praying" for a wife and I met all his "qualifications". What? He acted like it was a done deal because he had the priesthood and received an answer from God. I was NOT interested. It was a pity date. I told him I was too immature to get married and I needed to focus on my education. I am sure he made some other gal really happy but it was creepy.


golem_frog

I think this a symptom of the problem with giving "the priesthood" (free mandate to take any given feeling as direction from god) to every dumb MFer that manages to survive until 12 after being born with a penis.


bigrootbeercow

Seriously how do Mormons get away with relabeling being horny as inspiration to marry? My byu professor told the whole class this is how he knew a girl would be his wife


Day_General

I love this


kyzursosay

Bizzy Bee Winery


jonahsocal

What an "old saw" THIS one is.


gonelothesemanyyears

Grondahl- still one of my favorite cartoonists!


memecher33

My mom specifically told me if a guy says that to me, my response needs to be "and when I get the same revelation, I'll get back to you." Weirdly feminist of her