This is the Saddest Thing I Heard All Week "I have to be super careful about who I ask out on dates now because I'm getting a reputation as a player in my ward ." — A male friend and alleged player I was furious when I heard this. So now I'm taking it out on my keyboard! YSAs don't know what they're talking about. Dating culture is obviously broken, and I hope that sharing my thoughts here might do something to help fix it! If you are one of the five people that reads this, God bless you. My friend is one of the coolest guys I know. To protect his identify, we'll call him Eddie. Eddie is a hardworking, funny, athletic, 27-year-old professional living in Provo, Utah—a catch by any standard. Unfortunately, Eddie has been branded a player by both men and women in his YSA ward. He feels he has earned their condemnation due to the fact that he had exclusively dated three girls and casually dated a dozen more in his ward over the p...
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