Agree!
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I have tears, I'm not shallow but laughed so hard because I have had a similar experience.
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Who cares how they dress ( well except for the magic undies) I am more concerned about other things, image not being one of them.
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Ah that is a difficult one, I came to church out of curiousity, when I first started attending I certainly did not believe. However I was vulnerable at the time and the subtle brainwashing took it's effect until I would say I was a true believer and within 6 months of joining and moving to a bigger city AND being a single mother with three small children at the time, I was called to be the new Re
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Love the post :)
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Well that makes me smile, it's good to see someone with a bit of spirit.
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Sounds good, perhaps we can drop them off while visiting teaching, maybe with a sample of coffee or a bottle of wine.
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I left because it wasn't true but there are others reasons to go once you really begin to look at Mormon culture.
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I like it :)
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Yes I agree.
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n/t
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Yep, that about sums it up.
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I was a convert so the polygamy never sat well with me and I was always sceptical of it, no matter how it was portrayed.
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What can I say? It is awful and it is embarrassing.
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Definitely!!!
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Definitely!!
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Haha!
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I was sexually abused by a family member myself for a long time and I didn't grow up Mormon. That put enough of a wedge between my family and I though and was one factor in my joining such a sweet, moral church where nothing like that would ever go on, haha.
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Oh that is so disgusting. In the church? Not so unbelievable, a lot of people have been lying and putting a front on in there for years. People are subtely taught that it is the image you put on for the outside that really matters. I know people who sweep disgusting behaviour under the rug as long as members are active in the church. That sure is one screwed up family though and so very damaging.
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Thanks very much :)
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Absolutely and I am sure that is part of the reason for the high depression rates in mormonism, there is so much pressure to be more and do more.
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Yeah I blamed myself for daring to speak up and at times the guy could be quite likeable and he spent lot's of time with me so I assumed we had a friendship but he just pretty much discarded me. I think he really liked working with the young men because they looked upto him and never questioned him. I started watching him after that and can see how he is trying to get all the younger women to adm
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Thank you all for your encouragement and thoughts, I was not BIC but joined later at a vulnerable point in my life. I used to wish I was BIC and now am so grateful I wasn't! I really feel like my true self was obliterated in there and wholeheartedly believe that the church is a unhealthy crazymaking system not unlike an emotionally abusive relationship. I'm really struggling at the moment with am
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I have never liked Thomas Monson.
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Yes I have or had a male friend in there who I think had a calling with the young men and he used to tell the most unbelievable stories. He was actually a lawyer and I,m sure he had many true interesting stories to tell but sometimes it would even be just little things that were obviously lies, sort of a duping delight. A couple of times he was challenged by people just in a joking way, one time
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I'm still very affected by my time in the Mormon church and am hoping that this board might provide me with some resources to help me through on my journey.
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