Posted by:
ExMoBandB
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Date: November 02, 2014 02:41AM
My next door neighbor got divorced around the same time I did, and we were a good support for each other. Both of us were as innocent and TBM as we could be. We were careful to avoid the appearance of evil, but we knew about the gossip. She had a harder time than I did, because she had grown up in our ward, and the ward members said that she was to blame for her husband's affair. (?)
We were the talk of the Mormon neighborhood, because someone saw us playing with the beach balls at the grocery store, and indulging in loud laughter, and acting juvenile. We had to think back about two years, to figure out where the rumor began. A young mother with several little kids was in the grocery store, and one of the kids broke a barrier, which held beach balls as high as the ceiling. The balls came bouncing down everywhere, and we took pity on the mother, who was frantically trying to stop this from happening, so we helped her gather up the balls. The balls were so bouncy, there were so many of them, and we had to scramble so much, that we started laughing.
My neighbor was left with 5 children, and I had several. We didn't have jobs, our husbands quickly married someone else, and refused to pay alimony or child support, so we had to hire attorneys. We were afraid of losing our homes. This was a very rough time for both of us, yet we had a reputation of playing around. We were younger than most of the ward wives, and the wives thought we were after their husbands--unattractive, chauvinistic, polyester, Mormon-garment wearers--ugh--as if!
So, even if you aren't "busted", the Mormons will make up lies about you.