Reynolds Park is a Jefferson County Open Space Park. Directions and more information is in the link below. http://jeffco.us/open-space/parks/reynolds-park/
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Hiking in Colorado is a must for the summer. I'm an exmormon who hikes on the weekends. Join me for a hike. All welcome. 4.2+ miles at Reynolds Park. July 31st. 9:30am. Message me for details.
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I'm free too. I have been so much happier after no contact with my LDS family.
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I know I'm on the ward try to friend and activate list. I spend half the week at my boyfriends house and other days I run errands after work and get home late. Last week a single lady in my complex - with whom I never got along with - called me. She left a message. Just saw your light on and was thinking of you. Thing is I had just walked in my door 5 minutes earlier. I was actually home at an ok
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That's how it was with my TBM family. All show and no action. They kept on telling me they wanted to help. I rarely asked for help. One time I asked a month or more in advance for a ride to the airport. Usually I just drove and parked. They said yes. The morning of my flight I arrive at their house and they inform me that they won't be driving me to the airport but putting me on a bus. I was
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I was once told by my family to get married to any guy that would ask me, have kids, and divorce him if I didn't like him. All of this because kids are what make your life and are the most important thing in life. Oh please!
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I don't think the declining marriage rate is going to make the church fall, I think it will be their desire to control the sex lives of the members. Which is what is effecting the rates of marriage. People are not getting married because now they don't have to in order to be accepted by society. As a general rule I had way more male friends leave the church over this issue than I had female f
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Thanks for comments. I appreciate it. I definatly want to know if it is something about my home that he doesn't like or the way I act at home or a control issue. I will be asking him soon why he won't spend time at my place. I enjoy my home and want to share that with him. It is also an expression of me. I would hope someone I care about would feel comfortable in my home. If he can't spen
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One experience I can share is when I went on my mission. While a teenage I confessed to the 'sin' of masturbation. I repented and tried my very best to follow the churchs teachings. I was so scared of confessing to another bishop that I keep the For the Strength of Youth standards. Before my mission I was 'clean' according to church standars. I had several interviews with my bishop to turn
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Since the TSCC screwed up my life, I am now in a position later (not teenage) in life with my first boyfriend. Often I am at his house spending time because it is nearer to my work. Between work and spending time with him I am hardly ever at my own house. During the weekend I like to spend time in my own house and get stuff done. ie cleaning, laundry... My boyfriend is always sad to se
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I'm an accountant and there is one thing that has always bothered me about tithing. Everytime you move wards you tithing donation amount does not follow you. If you want the tax form you have to contact your old ward. Today I got in the mail a donation slip from a church I attend occasionally. I put in a $15 donation and they mailed me my tax form. Why doesn't the church mail out donation
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After so many years of emotional abuse I finally cut ties with my TBM family. My TBM family is lead by my mom who divorced my 'evil' (love convert) now inactive dad. Most of breaking away happened after several consecutive events. I decided I was going to live my life the way I wanted and not the way my co-dependent mother and LDS church wanted me too. Ever so often I get love bombed by
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Thanks everyone for your comments. I am finally doing what I want. I'm living life and enjoying it. I'm happier than I've been in a long time.
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I left mormonism about six months ago. In the church I was always looked down upon and was never asked out on dates. Yet when I left, I've been asked out by many men. I am currently in my first relationship and am amazed at what a relationship really is. It is nothing like the chruch teaches. I often stay at my boyfriends place because it is close to work and well, who wouldn't want to spe
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For me it took a year of grieving before I got better. It was two steps forward and one step back. I had to have many coping strategies that I used frequetnly to get me through it. Things like reading a great book, watching t.v., taking a walk, taking a hike, sitting in the sun, eating great food, going window shopping, meditation, yelling to get my frustrations out when nobody was home, tak
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I left emotionally a year ago. It was a step by step realization. Stopped going to church in May of 2013 after my family accused me of committing sin because I wasn't living the perfect TBM life (although I was temple worthy and living all the 'rules') I finally looked at weither the church was really Christlike. After a General Conference where I was looking for Christlike attributes from
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I am dating my first boyfriend ever. I was so excited to tell my best TBM friend. I caller her up and told her about my nevermo boyfriend. She immediatly said that it was God that brought us together and that maybe I never dated in the LDS singles scene because I had to meet my nervermo boyfriend. The reason I had to meet him was to later bring us both back into the church. I politely let
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I have been learning alot about the Mormon influence on my sexuality and wrote a blog post about it. Here is the link http://cali4sci.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/learning-about-my-sexuality-and-the-mormon-influence/ If your willing to share, I'd like to hear about your story and/or advice. Or a rant on the church. Sometines I just get mad about what the church teaches about life. But now I jus
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