Posted by:
ificouldhietokolob
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Date: August 19, 2015 07:22PM
I had a serious crush on a very cute bishop's daughter as a teen. An unrequited one. She was, after all, the bishop's daughter, holy and untouchable. Just before I left for my mission, I finally mustered the courage to take her on a date. It was quite nice. She got more than a little friendly, physically. She let me know she would miss me while I was gone, and would be there when I got back. She wrote me during my mission, not every week or anything, but once every couple of months, always sending photos, and saying how much she was looking forward to me coming home.
I got home. She was gone to BYU. I left the church within 3 months, and didn't see her again.
About 5 years ago, a mormon acquaintance in my hometown mentioned her brother's name casually -- I told him I'd grown up with that family. He said he knew him from the local ward, and he was living in town. I didn't ask him to, but he gave the brother my phone #.
He called me a few days later, and asked if I wanted to stop by and "catch up." What the heck, I figured. So I went by. He'd had some mental illness problems, so I was actually glad to see he was married, had a job, and was apparently doing OK. Then he says he has a surprise for me...
Calls his sister out of the back room of the tiny house. Instead of the hot teen I remembered, out came a grossly overweight woman who looked far older than her 48 years. She was living with him, with 2 of her 6 kids. The faithful priesthood holder RM husband she'd caught at BYU turned out to be abusive and lazy; he'd left them numerous times, then would return, get her pregnant, beat her up some, and leave again. The church (and her now area 70 dad) kept counseling her to stay with him, be a good wife, and help him return to his covenants. She finally left him for good (supposedly), and went to live with her barely able to function brother -- because her mom and dad wouldn't take her in, as she was destroying a temple marriage.
I made some small talk. Then I got out of there as fast as possible. Before I left, they tried to get me to come back to church, which as they said was "the only thing holding our lives together." I paused for a moment, then as I walked out the door, said, "No way in hell."
Haven't seen them since. :)