Posted by:
exminion
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Date: April 17, 2018 11:22PM
I hated that the cult forced kids to attend a singles ward. Religion, to me, was always about worship--not about dating and finding a mate. A lot of my BYU friends refused, and went to their home wards with their families, during the summers, to reconnect, and enjoy being home again.
I was obedient, and went to the singles ward. I was in love with a young geology graduate student, who always had to be out of the country for his PhD program, during the summers. While he was away working with other men, I was being constantly hit-on by predatory hopeful celestial polygamists and rulers of planets.
Most of my focus was on avoiding being accosted, and this really distracted me from having any kind of religious experiences. My boyfriend was TBM, but he felt uneasy about my going to church. I just wanted to be home with my family in the summers, as long as I could. The cult has no right to push children out of the nest! They do this with missions, especially.
My daughter, who tried going back to Mormonism, with her cousins, and they tried their local mandatory singles ward. She was immediately hit-on by two handsome young men, that she didn't know, but her brothers knew a lot about. One had been in juvenile hall for stabbing someone, and the other was on drugs, and selling drugs. When her brothers found out she had sat between these two creeps, they warned her to stay away from the singles ward.
I was assigned to the older single adults group. They used to have their own older ward in the Monument Park area of SLC, but there was so much promiscuity and scamming going on, that the church disbanded that ward, and that was the last one I ever heard of. I left shortly after that.
How disgusting, that a church would kick someone out, because they are too old. That in itself is just SICK. Would Jesus do that?
You were in a cult. You were led to believe you were in a religious group that was all about Christ, and LOVE. Not! Most of us have felt Mormon shunning, in various forms. I was a divorced single working mother in the Mormon cult--and not only was I marginalized, but my children were, too. They said we had a "broken home." Enough! We resigned together.
Like we always say here on RFM:
"Where's the love?"