Posted by:
Breeze
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Date: November 30, 2015 07:34PM
"T'would trade a cup of tea any day over the company of strangers at the morg." I'm going to remember that, this evening, when I curl up with a hot cup of peppermint tea and a good book.
Shunning still hurts, sometimes. I have zero Mormon neighbor friends. I've lived in the same house for 30 years, and was an active organist and teacher, until my kids and I resigned. My children were an influence for good. They were/are friendly, kind, honest, hard-working, good students. It seemed like the Mormon families were falling apart, because of drugs, rebellion, pregnancies, rejection from their parents, being "farmed-out" to relatives, rehab centers, pineapple groves in Hawaii, etc. There was no reason to shun us! My children bought houses in this neighborhood, and their children are going to the same schools. They have the same non-Mormon friends, and friends they made at the university--but are not friends with the Mormons. Their children (my grandchildren) don't get invited to Mormon birthday parties and play-dates.
My sister and her husband and kids are all perfect BIC TBM's. They built a new house in the neighborhood, and her daughter was crying and throwing a tantrum about the move, saying that she was going to lose all her friends. I said, "You will be only two blocks over, and will be going to the same schools."
My niece said, "We will be in another ward, and everybody knows that when you change wards, you lose all your old ward friends. That's just the way it is!"
What a sad commentary on Mormon "friendships".