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Interesting. Most Mormons acknowledge problems with the culture and are open to criticizing and attempting to correct things they consider wrong with it. I've even seen GAs talk very openly about that. But, if an apostate says anything at all critical of anything, then believers get deeply upset. M...

Eating is far less satisfying and the first week is filled with crankiness as you get used to eating less calories than you use. But I have not gotten hungry at all, the food you can eat is very filling and there is no restriction on how much of it you can eat. I'm not expert, but this is the part ...

Well that escalated quickly.

My MIL and wife decided to go on a diet called the Whole30 at the new year. I wanted to be supportive so I am going along with it. It is kind of like a high demand religion. Random rules that go against the latest studies and don't always make sense, but when you follow them some good results come, ...

DW and I started Dr. Kristy Money's Mixed Faith Marriage Workbook last night. It did not go well. The first exercise is called getting vulnerable, and you are supposed to be open with your spouse about how much you know about each other about things like faith, hobbies, friends, family. Then you sha...

Sounds like a good place to be Kish, I'm glad you made it. I hope to join you one day.

Family and how it's gone: I have quite a few relatives in "my" ward, so the news of my inactivity was bound to quickly reach the ears of my entire family, and it did. Obviously my family is completely devastated that we've stopped going. At first my father responded really well and was interested i...

Welcome to NOM! Your story is unique, but so familiar. I stopped going to church about a year ago. I am very blessed; my wife stopped going with me. At first it was just because she didn't want to do sacrament meeting with three young children alone and she didn't want them asking her "Why doesn't D...

That sounds like something they would make him do. All ye progressive and liberal Mormons, behold your savior! Even he bends the knee and we suggest you do likewise. Okay...I'm going to pretend that Uchtdorf uses this humility tour to build a rebel resistance comprised of: liberals, progressives, f...

I prefer Uchtdorf to Oaks, the announcement felt a little like when Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz for the Boston Celtics; not unexpected but still a punch in the gut. While Uchtdorf may not actually have led the church to a more progressive place, I sure liked most of his talks more than the oth...

Further down in the study: White, non-Hispanic Protestants (70% of all Protestants): 60% approval rating White Catholics: 51% approval rating Maybe the study is just showing that Mormons are more white than most religions I was going to bring this up as well, but with a different conclusion. Mormon...

UPDATE 2 The bishop gave a heartfelt invitation to the Endowed without a Recommend people at church yesterday. One of the talks mentioned temples, and the bishop got up to close the meeting and riffed on the temple topic. He got emotional and talked about those who haven't been active temple attende...

These situations suck all around. My experiences and thoughts on your situation are bullet-ed below. 1. I have been taking it slow since I unloaded my current state of belief on my wife 3 years ago, and I think we are finally reaping some rewards. I occasionally shop on Sundays with no visible frust...

My in-laws are in the Jordan River Temple District. They were semi-willing ordinance workers before the building was closed for renovations a couple years ago, and it is about to reopen. They would rather not be ordinance workers again, but they will probably do it if asked cause they committed to d...

Thank you for all the great responses! But with your son, my experience is it works best in mixed faith relationships to keep it respectful of the other's beliefs, and I am not sure that the Santa analogy does that. Kids are proud of being in on the Santa secret, and think the kids who still believe...

I think I need to have a plan to be honest with my son before he gets baptized. I would appreciate any thoughtful feedback positive or negative. Why: - I want my son to know who his father is - I want to get this in before his indoctrination makes it a wedge - I don't want my son as an adult to look...

FATM yesterday we had a cryer. My 6 year old son looked up from his workbook and said, "that's funny, it sounds like she's crying". "She is crying," I responded. He looked confused about why an adult woman was crying in front of everyone at church. I explained that people cry for lots of different r...

It is tough to effectively give unorthodox advice to believers because if you are too obvious then their AADAR (Apostate Radar) goes off and undermines the credibility of anything you say or have ever said. So be careful to couch things in a believer friendly manner until you know she won't disregar...

I still teach the Sunbeams with TBM DW. This year the primary theme is “I am a child of God”, so every week in sharing time the presidency will have a few kids say something from that week that helps them know god is their Heavenly Father. They are calling them “warm fuzzies”. The push to attribute ...

Hang in there Kish! I hope it all works out ok.