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That is a good catch RR!

Stuck, I missed this post somehow. Here’s my advice. Don’t make your interactions transactional. I’ll do this …. If you do that. It doesn’t get you anywhere other than posturing against each other from an “opposite team” perspective. Here’s how it’s been for us. Your team is using your logical brai...

By the way does it cost you anything to keep this site going?

Thanks Corsair! Also feel free to say hello every now and again

dogbite wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:48 pm

I think you should start being more authentically you but with as much kindness and respect for her as you can find. Help her find what she can accept you as.

This is good dogbite. That is a great question to ask her.

Thanks for your responses guys! Hey I saw a counselor today and we talked about the situation. My wife suffers a bit from anxiety and she feels that a lot of it comes from my faith transition. I believe her anxiety is keeping her from coming to terms with my non-belief. That is why she wants me to d...

So my shelf began to crash in 2013 or 2014 after the Blacks and the priesthood came out. Then shortly thereafter I had kind of a spiritual experience and came back until I began to question that spiritual experience. My wife and I had some discussions and we read the horrible Michael Ashe apologetic...

I have only tried non-alcoholic beer thus far. It gave me a little brain fog which I didn't like. I think I would like to experiment a bit more but am aware of the dangers and don't want to get cancer or become an alcoholic. Besides, I don't think my wife would approve. Her grandfather became an alc...

I met with my bishop recently. He called me in probably because he wanted to see how I was doing since I had met with him before and let him know of my non-belief. He asked me the usual questions that you would ask a non-believer such as what spiritual experiences did you have in the past and I told...

Red, did you ever have to explain why you stopped paying tithing to your wife? I did. As a new college grad I started working as an auditor working for one of the Big 4 accounting firms. I started auditing numerous churches and other non-profit entities which required audited financial statements b...

I was able to go back and get my history for the last 14 years… $0 It's interesting to see where I stopped paying tithing--mostly this past year. Unfortunately I lied about tithing to my wife recently. But I didn't want to have the conversation where I would have to explain that since I paid on my ...

Joseph Smith in the voice of Donald Trump, love it

I've been watching Paganism (ancient religion) on Great courses via Roku. It has been interesting that some of those things parallel modern religion. Baal was a Phonecian storm deity that was another form of Yahweh who was the Jehovah of the old testament and we are taught in Mormonism is Jesus Chri...

Maybe there is the "sunk cost" factor also. It seems the older generation may be more concerned about "saving" the younger generation from leaving the fold right?

"Spiritual" beliefs? Y'all know what I'm going to say aboot that: I don't believe in ghosts. Beyond that I like shocking believers with the term: Apatheism . In not-so-many words: "Don't know, don't care." In a few-mor-words: I don't believe in the existence of any gods, and I don't really care too...

I would probably label myself the same. Although, I tend to have a greater belief in science than I do in religion. I guess there is still the "unknown". Like are there ghosts? and do miracles happen? There was a missionary who spoke yesterday (homecoming) and he said that he was prompted to quote a...

Years ago the people living on 90th South in Sandy, Utah did not know their neighbors on the other side of the street. Why? Because the middle of the street was the dividing line between the LDS Stakes. Same for Highland Drive. Boyd K. Packer used to live just across Highland from me and we never h...

Jfro18, I have really liked your work on Mormon stories. What is the best way to support you? Donate to Mormon stories or elsewhere? So I'm not making any $$ for these (I know John pays regulars but I want to make sure no one can ever say I'm doing this for the money) which is probably a really dum...

Jfro18, I have really liked your work on Mormon stories. What is the best way to support you? Donate to Mormon stories or elsewhere?

Thanks everyone for your responses they were all helpful and insightful. Just a side note, awhile back when I asked my EQP that I didn't want to minister anymore that led to him inviting me to breakfast and I let him know that I no longer believed. Curiously, his wife this past Sunday spoke and sai...