Posted by:
Mother Who Knows
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Date: October 28, 2019 05:23AM
Ew-ew-ew! I went to Laie on my honeymoon, too!
MAJOR FLASHBACKS!!
My temple ex-husband's father was an arrogant, big-wig, buffoon GA, that many write about here on RFM. Believe me, this creep deserves to be disliked. Our whole honeymoon was on the church's dime. Thanks, all of you tithe-payers, for our free one-month stay in a beach house right on the beach!
My ex's family were too important and self-righteous to attend their own son's wedding, even though it was at a fancy country club, with other important Mormon GA's and Mormon Who's Whos in attendance. I met my new sister-in-law for the first time at the Polynesian Cultural Center, and she asked me how I was getting along with her brother. I said everything was great. She then told me that he had beaten her, constantly, all her life, and that, finally, he had injured her so badly, that social services had removed her from that house. My ex's mother was handicapped, and needed my ex to lift her, so my ex stayed in the house, and the sister left home.
"Oh, and Happy Hawaii Vacation to you, too, new sister-in-law! Let's all go to the temple together, now!" They had the live play, when we were there. God help me, I was so far away from home, with a severe infection, and a fever.
After we got home, my ex beat me almost every day--for no reason--but he made me feel it was my fault, somehow. He said I was his eternal wife and could never leave, and I was his possession, and that according to D & C 132, he could do whatever he wanted to me. I was working to put him through school, and after work, I sneaked off to the library and read everything I could find about anger-management issues, and psychopaths, and spousal abuse (it was pretty much unknown and unmentioned back in those days), and decided the only way to save myself was to get a divorce. I planned my escape very carefully, because I was scared to death of him, and afraid of what he might do to my family. He put us all through Hell. He was a very sick person.
"Brothers and sisters, aloha!" That's how the GA dad would begin his talks in Hawaii, and the congregation would answer in unison "Alooooha!" The Mormon a-holes pretended to "love" the Polynesians, but you could tell they felt superior to them, and treated them in a condescending manner, and the Mormon Polynesians didn't seem to be aware of this