It's been about three years since my last post and logging into RFM this beautiful Sunday morning I don't recognize most of the names anymore.

A little about me:
I spent 35 years in the cult, BIC, RM, Temple Married.
In 2004 I discovered some 'new' information about 'prophet' Joe.
In 2005 wife and I walked out of our UT ward and never looked back.
Became newly minted black sheep of the family & pariah of the neighborhood.
Finally moved family away from Utah as 2nd class status grew tiresome.

Now 15 years later I rarely think about mormonism. I'm no longer angry...(and boy was I pissed for a really long time). My relationship with my family is slowly improving and on my terms. Neither of my children have ever heard of Joseph Smith and they complain loudly twice a year when I drag them to a local lutheran church.

I'm still very confused about God in general....I'm agnostic on my most spiritual days but I love church music and I long for the sense of community I grew up with.

It has taken 15 years but I may finally be 'recovered' from the Mormon Mind F**K (TM)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2019 10:04AM by NoToJoe.

Congrats on your long road to recovery. And that you were able to spare your children the same fate.

It was 2005 when I resigned my membership in TSCC. It took me that long to reach my resolve that I was never going back. Once I did I haven't (except for family funerals.)

I'm glad you're free.

I understand the move away from UT County. I also lived there till 2007. Stopped attending in late 90's, but when I got a job transfer in 2007 which took me to SL County, I finally officially resigned. I could not stand the thought of my old neighborhood giving me any more of the stink eye that I was already getting from being the lapsed mormon on the block. Congrats on your life away from the cult.

CORRECTION::::::IT'S PROFIT, NOT PROPHET....THEY ARE ALL PROFITS

follow the counsel of dallin hoax....tell them what you do know..that joe smith was a profit of god

Glad you are out but one thing I doubt you would still find there is any sense of community.

All the activities and time for socializing have been dropped due to cost cutting.

Well, you may not remember me, but I remember you ;-)

Congratulations on getting your life back!

Tom in Paris

Proverbs 22:6 King James Version (KJV) "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Or, as I call it, "Get'em while they're young!"

They say what children learn during the early formative years is the strongest informing that will be done to them. I do believe it. And that is why it takes forever to get the indoctrination our of your mind or in my case at least get it caged and carry a whip with you to keep it in line.

So glad you feel the way you feel NoToJoe. Recovered. I feel it too. Recovery from me is having learned something. Having added enough new to dilute the old and turn it to "misty water-colored memories".

NoToJoe Wrote:
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> A little about me:
> I spent 35 years in the cult, BIC, RM, Temple
> Married.
> In 2004 I discovered some 'new' information about
> 'prophet' Joe.
> In 2005 wife and I walked out of our UT ward and
> never looked back.

Very similar to me except wife didn't walk out and accepted her status as Mormon single mom with apostate husband. We also had left Utah a few years earlier.

I'm very happy for you. We've both reached a point where the anger isn't so consuming. It is nice.