Wii - Now that you've explained it, I do understand the desire and benefit of dating within your own religion. Thank you for sharing that information as I learned about 10 times more about the beliefs and practices of Adventists then I previously knew. While refining dating to within your own faith certainly diminishes the available dating pool, the upside clearly is that if you find someone who shares the same beliefs and lifestyle as you, then you don't have to ask them to make adjustments to their life in order to accommodate your belief system. Plus they get to share in something that is vitally important to you and a very large part of your life.
I'm sorry about what happened with AM, but I guess better to have discovered this now versus much later. I think it hurts so bad because she was someone you were really attracted to and often the things we want most in life hurt the most when we end up not getting them - at least that's how I'm wired. Cue the playing of Nazareth's "Love Hurts" Ok - my two cents is over!
