Posted by:
melisma
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Date: January 21, 2011 08:48PM
I have been an exmormon for twenty years, priding myself and my family on how well we adjusted. Boundaries are respected and positive comments about my life are generously offered. Today I mentioned to an exmormon friend that my mother should give lessons in being a TBM mother of an exmormon.
Her tearful tangent of martyrdom this evening completely threw me. Didn't see it coming. Apparently she is to blame, is solely responsible for my leaving. If only she had said/done this, that and the other, I wouldn't have left. *sigh*
It is pointless to once again go over the factual reasons I left. The fraud, misogyny, mediocre music, etc. I just repeated my mantra: "I am happy. If I had stayed in the Mormon church, I would be miserable. You are a wonderful mother. Stop beating yourself up on behalf of the Mormon organization."
This is peanuts compared to what most exmormons put up with, but it makes me really sad.