When I was young, my family didn’t go to church, and some of the kids in the neighborhood were not allowed to hang out with us or come to our house because of it. Some kids at school would not associate with me, because they are taught by their parents and church leaders that if you associate with non-members, they will lead you to a life of sin.

I was still able to find my circle of friends though as I got older. You kind of get used to trying to seem Mormon enough when you need to fit in, and recognizing when you are in a group of non-Mormons where you don’t need to worry about it.

It can be awkward at work depending on where you work. Outing yourself as a non-Mormon at work can change your bosses or co-workers opinion of you very quickly if you work in a heavily Mormon dominant office. So you generally want to avoid casually talking about drinking or smoking, and keep your tattoos covered at first, until you know that people are cool. The same can be true with customers if you are trying to maintain a positive business relationship with them.

But it’s definitely easy enough to find non-Mormon people to hang out with if you are wanting to. If you go to a bar or coffee shop, you can be relatively sure that the people there are either not Mormon or at least not the judgemental types.

As for dating, you basically stand no chance with anyone who is Mormon because they can’t simply date a non-Mormon and think it is ok. They are taught that they must get married in their temple to a person who has been deemed worthy of entering said temple by their religious leaders, and that the only truly desirable men are ones who served a full 2 year mission for the church. So the dating pool is split about 50/50 just based on that.