I can't imagine ever twisting my brain into believing in Mormonism again. How can they possible think a bunch of us are going to repent and come back? Are they rally just talking to the members? Trying to get the members to see us as unrepentant rather than reasonable? How weird would it be if I could get my brain to believe that stuff again? I'd have to hit my head on something or experi
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No‼️ Not beards‼️
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Here's a hug, I'm glad you got away.
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Only I didn't know that then. Yesterday after the church reversed its awful policy, I purposely sought out some of my Mormon friends' Favebook pages. I've been out for about 10 years now. I spend all my time around never Mormons now. And when I look at the posts the Mormons I knew as a child make, I feel like I'm standing outside of a fishbowl looking at the fish swimming around. And I'm
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Ugh. Asking CNN to apologize for pointing out the flip rather than asking the brethren to apologize for taking harmful actions that necessitated the flip, Ugh and lol and ugh. MORmONS
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Thank you all. I needed some warm words. The whole cult part of it can really get me down sometimes. I am so happy I have my children and they're the best family of all. But I still wish I had some other people, too. I suppose I never really had them, though. The only me they loved was a me who made them feel good about them. That's different than really being loved. I asked m
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*They're excuseD (not excuses) and I'm the evil one.
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Life is hard. I lost everyone to help my children escape. But yesterday, my well read 20-yo son told me he'd read the BOM again. As an adult. He said, "It's such a bad book. Obviously written by an immature kid in the 19th century. All those battles." I laughed one of those long, hard, clearing laughs thinking about how seriously I once took that stupid chloroform in print. I
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