Posted by:
David Jason
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Date: August 18, 2013 12:09AM
So my wife is visiting her parents without me. She is feeling internal anguish over having a secret that I told her a month ago. (I'm atheist).
She desperately wants to tell them in the hopes that they will support us in the fact that we will be raising our children differently. I think she also feels some guilt and is hoping for some moral support.
She is TBM/NOM, but she's pretty reasonable. She listens to me about the history, believes me, but still thinks it's a good place.
Her Dad is a convert, her mom is from a mix faith family. They have a lot of non-mormon family close to them. The church is their life. All 10 siblings are TBM. I think the biggest harassment will come from a couple of them and their spouses. I could see it going either way. I hope they'll just talk about us behind out backs (it's inevitable). We live on the other side of the country so we don't have to deal with them much.
I feel like it could go either way. I live in PA and the ward is incredible spread out so I don't think I'll get a lot of crap from ward members. He have a couple jerk missionaires, and a couple jerk members.
I'm kind of scared. I don't feel very confident in myself dealing with manipulative aggressive people. Not sure if I have the confidence to say no yet.
I tried to talk my wife out of it, but she's really having a hard time keeping it in.
Any advice?