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Overhead 2 sweet librarians lamenting the lack of primary kids in their wards. 10 years ago they had over a hundred kids. Now they have almost none. Interesting eavesdropping on their thoughts as to the reasoning. I soooo wanted to chime in my reasoning for not exposing my kids to the church, but I’m learning to mind my own business.

I really thought I healed from my Mormon upbringing. I finally stopped bingeing Mormon stories and now just listen if a story piques my interest, I no longer feel the need to constantly talk about it. I don’t keep up with every piece of Mormon news. Then all the sudden I was hit with the most strong feeling of grief for my younger self taking care of babies with no coffee. What a better time I could have had. I could have enjoyed my mornings with my littles so much more. Because a lady in the 1830s was annoyed cleaning up tobacco off the floor, and her husband said he talked to god, now millions of Mormon parents have raised millions of Mormon babies without a nice hot morning cup of coffee

Is there some sort of a program like AA that doesn’t involve a higher power? It seems to be a turn off for some people I know.

I have a very close friend who is going through alcohol withdrawals at a hospital. They have liver disease and all organs are failing. The drs can’t do anything for them unless the drinking stops. They seem to be in some sort of psychosis bc they texted everyone things like ‘call police asap. Not this city police because they are in on it. ____ is chasing me.’ And so on. I’ve seen them cut people out of their life if they mention the drinking issue. This person has a great life with a family and a house and it seems they are headed toward losing everything/homelessness. Any tips for how I can best be of help? I’m happy to have difficult conversations, but also am thinking that might not be

My child has been on a very low dose of Methylphenidate. It’s been a wonder and she has made leaps and bounds of improvement in reading and school. The downside is she has to go in at lunch to take a second dose. At home, we often forget the second dose. We tried upping her dosage so that she could try one of the XR options. It seems to be working well, but the cost is way higher than the non XR version. The original med she is on costs us only 11$/month (and often it lasts us 1.5 months actually because her dose is less than the Dr wrote on the perscription). The new med was $35/week. They seem to work similarly with the only benefit being I don’t have to remember the lunch dose. Is there a

8yr old daughter…meds have been a game changer and she went from no confidence at school and being way behind to a grade level ahead and confident. It’s been so fun to watch her excel and get positive reinforcement from teachers. She’s always had an easy time making and keeping friends so no worries there yet. I’m concerned with her executive functioning. Her back pack is just wads of paper/trash…everyday! We clean it out and the next day more wads of paper. Her room…huge mess. I help her organize her bookshelves and 2 days later it’s like a tornado went through. I’ve made her a list to help her get through her morning tasks. If she completes them all by a certain time she gets these little

Ugh venting and will probably delete later. My parents are now required to attend a branch that is 2.5 hours away from them every other Sunday. They are getting old. They have plenty of health issues. They don’t need to be going on an all day road trip every other Sunday. The branch they are now supposed to attend had under 15 people show up on Easter Sunday. This seems like a desperate attempt to revive a dying religion. It’s all hands on deck now so the elderly are used and abused to the bitter end. Ugh.

Anyone know what’s going on in Oklahoma?? I just heard last Sunday they made 5 stakes into 7 stakes and…drumroll please….0 new wards. Also, they talked about how 100 people is the new magic number per ward to keep people strong in the church. The busier the better…no time for googling anything about the church 😂

I think that’s what the show is called…can be streamed on Peacock. Guys! It’s everything I was hoping secret lives would be. Absolutely scandalous for the Mormon church. It brings up ALL the issues with the trashy reality TV feel that I love. So far there’s only one episode available. Can’t wait for more. Also, I guess it’s just not popular which is why the church hasn’t made a stink about it, but it’s really damning for TSCC. Just one episode in and all things Mormon are front and center. The patriarchy, Mormon entitledness, keeping up with the joneses, big families, priesthood ban, Botox, drinking, Sunday restrictions, lgbtq issues, exmormons being left out of family relationships,hypocris

Ugh my close family relative just made a facebook post to the world to have everyone who wants to help with the hurricane devastation to donate to the humanitarian fund because it is ‘a unique charitable organization 100% of donations go to direct aid, with no administrative/marketing/overhead fees taken out. The church's volunteers and aid are historically among the first on the scene.’ Back when I was a nuanced member I would have totally said something, but now that I’m a known exmo I weirdly feel like I can’t speak up. It would cause so much more conflict me being exmo that when I was still in. When I was still in it was seen as trying to inform and make positive changes while now it wou

I just can’t get over how absolutely violent the whole Book of Mormon is. I can’t think of ANY stories that I’d love to teach my kids from it. It’s really missing any sort of valuable life lessons and morals most religious texts have. Of course as a TBM I would use my crazy raised in a cult skills to find meaning out of the scraps it gives but it’s really lacking. I cannot believe my parents read that shit to me at such a young age.

Yes, it is lacking in the area of teaching valuable life lessons, but what is worse is the lessons it actually teaches. Most conflicts are resolved by physical violence. God blessing people to be strong enough to kill other people. Angels hurting people. W

With the upcoming legal battles regarding temples, I’m predicting a new ‘proclamation the the world.’ I’m thinking it will include word salad about how amazing temples are with a little sentence about steeple height and temple location. There will be many TBM tears on fast Sunday about how prophetic and forward thinking the document is. I saved them a step, it’s the least I could do considering they’re all getting close to 100 years old. Here’s what chatGBT came up with:

The Temple: Proclamation to the World

The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

We, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The

OMG I had a flashback of a tearful testimony I gave in relief society like 15 years ago. It’s so horrible. I have always considered myself an LGBTQ ally but I was raised in the 90s and had some growing to do in regards to how to do that. Guys, I actually gave my testimony on how the family proclamation was so prophetic and ahead of its time blah blah blah word salad testimony. Fuck me what an asshole me from 15 years ago was! I mean who was in that classroom having to listen to me drone on about the wonderful patriarchal and anti LGBTQ document we all had been given as scripture from god. I totally blocked it from my mind until tonight. It was just a year or two later that I dropped the fami

OMG I had a flashback of a tearful testimony I gave in relief society like 15 years ago. It’s so horrible. I have always considered myself an LGBTQ ally but I was raised in the 90s and had some growing to do in regards to how to do that. Guys, I actually gave my testimony on how the family proclamation was so prophetic and ahead of its time blah blah blah word salad testimony. Fuck me what an asshole me from 15 years ago was! I mean who was in that classroom having to listen to me drone on about the wonderful patriarchal and anti LGBTQ document we all had been given as scripture from god. I totally blocked it from my mind until tonight. It was just a year or two later that I dropped the fami