A very sad day indeed.He brought so much laughter to the world and its heartbreaking to know that in his own personal life there was so much despair that he saw no way out of. May he rest in peace. We will Miss You :(
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daily lurker,once in a blue moon poster here. i had to chime in on this one because I really believe I have lived both side of this debate. i have a son born in 1987 and a daughter in 1991 with whom I would allow sleepovers.I would always meet the parents and be sure they would be supervising them.I enjoyed have there friends in our home and would allow them to be typical teenagers with sta
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Thank You Brother Jerry and SusieQ. And Im sure your probaly right chump
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Thank You. You have answered my questions. And No Im Not Stupid...I know quite well it will always be hiding there somewhere. Just do not want to be counted in there stats of current membership and have that letter might post it on my front door if the missorarys ever show up again.
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So I have been back and forth on resigning and have discussed this before here.Decided then that though they really have no power that I still did not want to be a number in any stats they lay claim to.But just never got around to it, no real reason...just busy doing life. But now I am back to it and about to follow though but have had another question come to mind... I have four children:
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not meaning to pry, but what is your age? asking for a reason. also as others have said there are alot of food pantrys available though churches that do not require all tssc does.
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"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill -- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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I certainly wish you well on this journey. One i would like to feel able to go on. I am maxed on zoloft. Do not like the fact, but something I have come to accept. Have attempted many times to go off of it. But it sounds like you are doing well with adjusting without it and I am very happy for you.
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but i am also preparing in case they do return. watching some youtube videos on the handshakes,lol....will greet them with those if they do show up again. think maybe that will do it?!
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Well since everything that happened last week I guess my son decided to tell them where we live because after five years of not hearing from them guess who knocked on my door today?! I have not bothered over the years to have my name removed because I did not recognize the authority of tssc anyway. They mentioned each of my children by name. I told them not to return and they still tried to
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that is certainly something I need to hear right now and also REMEMBER. We had a nice evening. Sat down all together and made plans for the summer. Planned a family camping trip. Made plans for Friday night to be a game night with friends over. Some community pool time.and who knows what else we may decide to do. so we are going to enjoy and savor.
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i would really appeciate that winks
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I could not agree more in regards to my daughter. We all sat down over the past few day with a therpist that I had when dealing with some of the abuse issues I once had in regards to his father. The therapist really reveled some things that we had been dealing with and It is still hard to wrap my head completely around the assessment they gave of what my son suffers with. But as he said it
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I lived with the verbal and emotional abuse. I have listened to him rant and rave against me saying things to me that no mother should ever have to hear from her child. I have comforted him and I have loved him and I have forgiven him time and time again only to have him turn around and stab me in the heart when he didn't get the thing he wanted from me or hear the words he wanted to hear.
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http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,890590,891761#msg-891761 Well it has taken me a few days to get back here to give an update. I had been reading and re-reading all of the advise given here and was treading carefully though this. As one person stated here “there seem to be a lot of dynamics in this situation” was a very true statement. Much more than I would dare to go into here becaus
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Elizabeth and I are going to have a day tomorow and we will be talking about many of these things and I will report back with a update. Tonight though is her first dance....bittersweet....my youngest first dance. Have a great night everyone. Will report back. And again thank you everyone so much.
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I wanted to briefly stop in and say that I really do appreciate all of you taking the time to read my post and to offer your input into this situation. Sometimes when you are so close to a situation there is nothing that helps more than to get the perspective from others that are not. I have been reading and rereading many of your post and I am mulling many of these things over in my head today.
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sorry that last one didnt post to where it was suspose to.
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I do not make the decision for her on attending church. There are many times that I go (not tssc) that she wants to sleep in and that is fine with me. But knowing what I know to be true about tssc I feel that it is certainly my responality as her mother to protect her from there control.
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this was are conversation on facebook: please do not take offense to some of my own talk about my religion...Im not on a soap box here trying to convert anyone... BrokenWings: i need to ask for you to respect me on something it is fine if elizabeth wants to attend church with you some times, but i she does not want to, allow her to stay home and i do not want the missionary to try and s
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Hi Everyone, I am mostly a lurker here though I have made some post in the past. I was hoping to be able to find one of my original post here so that I would be able to link to it to give a bit of background but I guess that the one I am thinking of was posted before I became registered because it is not in my archives under this name. So please bear with me, this may be long, but I am reall
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told ya i would be back....are photos of joseph smith allowed, pictures of temples???
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some specfics i was wondering about are such as Pioneer Day which is clearly a mormon hoilday, is that observed in the public schools are teachings of the church, church history, joseph smiith allowed to be taught may be back with more
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I am just wondering for those of you that live there, how are the public schools different? Is there a seperation of church and state in Utah or have the wormed around this??? Have done some googleing on the public schools there but not really finding the information Im seeking,figured that kind of information could probaly only come from those that live there.
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and i can hear them now....blessing will come to you and your son if you follow your calling if she doesnt follow it then any furture problems with son will be her fault because she is not following the will of God
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maybe its just that i notice the ones attacking more for some reason and maybe im to hyper senstive, its just when i see what looks like someone trying to express something and they start getting blasted with attacks...not saying everyon does it...it just makes it hard to step out from behind the curtain. and no i dont expect a babysitting service to coddle me just think there could be a bit m
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I am just really wondering how many lurkers there are out there that would really love to post but have been to intimidate by the tone of some of the people on this board. I guess I just don't get it, some of just seem to lack compassion for others and there road on this journey out of mormonism. Each person is different and each person has to do in the way that is comfortable for them. T
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i remember in 98 i had a meeting with the bishop, i was 6mo pregant with my 3nd child and my priesthood holder hubby was having an affair, it was christmas time and we were seperating, i divorced him in june of that next year. but anywho....in this meeting i told him that i had issues with depression and was on anti depressents, he seemed more concerned about that then what was going on in my hom
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Charles Manson
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one of the best in my eyes/ thankful i have not had to go through this and my heart goes out to the children and parents that do......Saint Jude Childrens Research Hospital http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f87d4c2a71fca210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD
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