I am so happy and grateful to have found this Board.

As I look back at being sucked into TSCC step by step inch by inch without even knowing that it was happening or how and why that happened to me, coming here, getting support and hearing the stories of others who got out has been a lifesaver for me.

So I just wanted to say, thank you.

I am nevermo, but I am also happy and grateful to have found this board.

I have learned so much here (often, things I was previously ignorant of, but really DID need to learn), and I am better in every way for having been able to interact here.

I greatly appreciate everyone who is a part of this community--you each have done more for me than you could probably ever understand.

I imagine that many others here, including those who pass through briefly, on their way to other destinations on their own life paths, probably feel the same way.

It has saved what little of my sanity I have left many, many times.

I think we should nominate Eric, and all the admins past and present for sainthood. They deserve it.



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Mel, we are so happy to have you! People like you are why this board came into being. I've been here for more than a decade and it is a lovely place.

Thank you, summer, and I agree, Heidi, sainthood for the admins!

I would have had to struggle all through this myself without the board, and would not have done well. I believe it has saved my sanity also, because I think TSCC was driving me crazy.



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Yes ^ ^

I floundered, alone in my dis-belief, for several years, before finding RFM. I took my children out of Mormonism, because they were being physically abused by the priesthood leaders, and I new nothing more than that.

Thanks to RFM, I discovered that I had been forcing my children to belong to a CULT! I learned the Truth here, and that gave me the power to stand up to the nasty Mormons.

I learned, here on RFM, that we could actually resign! I did not know that. Resigning stopped almost all the Mormon harassment.

RFM gave me emotional support, many times, in facing new problems with Mormons, and in dealing with old (fake) friends in our mostly Mormon neighborhood, who were shunning us and spreading lies about us.

RFM helped me deal with fear and guilt.

Most of all, the lovely posters on RFM prove that there really are kind people in the world! "Where's the love?"
Here on RFM!

I found RfM years after resigning from the cult. For years I suffered in silence and alone because I didn't know anyone else who'd been through a similar life experience of living through Mormonism and leaving it before finding RfM online. Well, except for a ex-Mo friend in southern Utah.

It will be four years this March since I registered here. It is one way to "pay it forward" to others who may be searching or needing support of giving back while getting so much in return.

For years I was working two jobs back to back twelve hours a day, 60 hours a week, for twelve years straight while getting my children raised. That didn't leave me much time to do anything else but work and sleep.

Now I'm down to one job and I feel as light as a feather. :)

Not much beats finding your own people.

I carried the pain around for nearly forty years buried all the way to China. RFM let me finally let it surface, dust it off, make sense of it, and own it instead of vice versa--or at least it's a tug of war now.

So glad you are here, mel.

Done & Done Wrote:
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> Not much beats finding your own people.

And people unfamiliar with the cult could never understand.

Thank you, Done and Done, for being here also, your things from China have surfaced and now help others including me!

:)

I'm pleased you got that, mel. My never-mo and never-religious partner of decades doesn't get it at all. I can't fault him, but I wish he could really get what us Exmos go through and how the aftertaste lingers. Being understood is one of life's greatest gifts.

I honestly don't remember how long I've been hanging out here. Well over a decade, at least.

I've been over Mormonism for ages. Now, I enjoy the community, and love encouraging the newbies. I've made some good friends here, too.

Thanks, Eric, for the community!

Of course you did not know what was happening. You were targeted and manipulated into converting.

The amount of deception Mormons use to recruit new workers for the cult is deplorable.

Elyse,

Quote: "You were targeted and manipulated into converting."

YES!

I consider myself smart, and educated, and aware....I never thought this could happen to me. But it did. SO grateful I found the support of the Board.

Many of the discussions here I print out in entirety to re-read in any dark nights or moments of weakness. They are invaluable. Thank you all again. :)

Mel

So grateful for this board. People here have become friends just like old school chums.

The news of losing our SuzieQ#1 took me aback like news of a neighbor or dear family member had passed. She was one of ours ... ours on this board.