No need to be sorry. Back in the day when I first came here some would chide me for not writing the letter. My solution was to tell the bishop to have me ex'd for heresy. EZ Pleasy. Took about 30 days. I chuckled because I served on the High Council with 8 of those dickwads (mostly dickwads) that held my court of love. I wish I'd been a fly on the wall. "Are you sure you mean Ron? How can that be?". :D
I never gave a second thought to writing the letter. Out is out. I doubt I could have derived any more satisfaction if I'd have written the letter.
Join Jan 2001 to make DH happy stopped going in July 2001 after DH heart attack and the BP called and told me DH was to be at Scout camp that night. When I told him DH was in the hospital and had a heart attack his words “ if you had been paying God is money this would not have happened “ . Not that DH was 100 lbs over weight and some other problems.
My husband joined in 1997 in a bid to save his first marriage. He got divorced in 2000, started drinking beer in 2001, married me in 2002, and resigned in 2006.
I wasn't even aware of the 'Blacks and the Priesthood' issue until years later. I think it was easier to convince people that Joe Smith was a righteous, upstanding person in the days before the internet.
Joined in 2001 because of my TBM ex-husband, and left about a year later when I divorced him after less than a year of marriage. I resigned a few months before my divorce was final. What led me to finally resign was getting an invitation to a Mormon singles dance before the divorce was final.
Joined in Jan (or Feb) 2001, got out in Sept 01 (letter didn't get processed until Oct 2001). It was a short, but worthwhile trip. I learned a lot about the culture and it gives me an uncanny insight to my TBM sister-in-law's (wife's brother's wife) family of 7. It's funny when they talk about church and history and things and I bring up something they've never heard about and I get the best looks from faces.
entered 1976. exited emotionally 1992. admitted to myself I had exited about 1994. admitted to others I had exited about 1996. left officially last month.
some tracting (splits with mishies) and many ward socials, helping hands and lots of other countless meetings.
Was not fully convinced for the first few months though I did feel I found home, however realised that all I found was some like minded people to myself and seemingly a fair few mentally ill/unstable people which raised alarm bells early on.
I would have quit around 6-8 months in, but continued because I didn't want to jepordise anything between myself and an LDS friend whom I cared about/loved so much.
Slowly all the problems accumulated about church history and I found myself completely stressed out in the fudged church lessons. I tried to continue and convince myself its all about doing good/everyone is so nice etc but just basically ran out one Sunday in between meetings in sheer horror of it all!
Tried the next couple of weeks and then quit for good.
Ended up being shunned by my LDS friend after her attempt to answer my questions on face in a hat, Adam is God and countless other LDS facts she never knew about and thats after being a member for 17 years since joining at age 20.
Just proves how the church has manipulated and BS'd her for all that time.
Baptised in 1981, quit attending in 1984, officially "stormed out" in 2005. (Don't know why it took me so long to get my name removed from their records.)
Joined 1995 as a teenager. Disaffected 2008 over political and cultural issues. That lead me to do more in depth research on the church and after discovering the true history and doctrine, I was totally out before 2009.
Baptized at the age of 14 in 1978. Lost all belief in early 2009, Stopped tithing and g's in Jan 2010 after 32 years. Best New Year's Resolution ever, and I've kept it so far!