She will assume from such a statement that he resigned because he feels unworthy, not because his integrity won't allow him to serve a hate cult/corporation.
I know that you have taken the first steps down what may very well be a difficult path. However I hope that it will ultimately be a rewarding path for you. Try to keep your calm center no matter how rough things get.
yes I think u r doing the right thing, I wouldn't shut up and lost my wife which turned out to be a good thing, however its a lot to ask someone to look the other way after all those years etc.
Keeping your integrity isn't usually easy. Sometimes keeping your spouse isn't easy either. I would try to explain to her whats going on. Maybe in a letter. She's more likely to read than listen.
Hopefully you come out of this with family in tact.
I admire your insistence on maintaining your integrity. It has to start some place.
It's my hope you can have some kind of agreement with your wife and you'll be able to share your views and your choices with her as your partner. It's not always pretty, but, for the sake of the relationship, it needs to be done, hopefully in a loving, kind manner.
Get this. The bldg super is also in charge of the bulletin, which my wife produces for distribution.
This guy came over to tell her that some members of the ward were unhappy with the bulletin and that she would have to change it.
She put her foot down and said that she gets crap all week from her students and parents (a teacher), and that the last thing she needed from ward members were complaints about the freakin' bulletin.
So she quit her calling too tonight. I gave the guy my key and she gave him the proverbial boot.
She's right. How hard it must be to teach all week and put up with complaints for her difficult weekend volunteer work. I say let one of the complainers take on the task.
What a productive event in your living room. You're both out from under those oppressive callings.
I ditto this. I used to do the weekly program for like a year and a half. It was interesting, how minds change as you go from one set of leadership to a newer one. When I first started, it was very easy. I just had to keep up with requests through email and I didn't take a tremendous amount of effort.
The change in power: later new ppl thrown into callings started to examine every word on the pages. Next, requests for me to print these after approval at 5am on Sunday. Next, complaint after complaint, preisthood interviews, blah blah, until I just said, "you know what, I got a family to feed, and this is just taking up too much of my time right now"
this was almost 10 years ago. I left the church 2.5 years ago. Had I known then what I know now, those programs would have been altered right before sacrament with all kinds of LDS approved citings. Sons a biches.