@Sara-xk1ns

5 months ago

I used to get sad we didn’t take summer vacations with my Mormon cousins. My mom was 1 of 9, so we had a lot of cousins but only 3 of us weren’t Mormon so we were the “bad cousins”. We’d go camping with just my 1 cousin and her parents and another aunt. The heathens of the family our moms would jokingly call us. Years later when I was 19 my mom passed away. My closest cousin was on her mission and I couldn’t even talk to her or see her. My mom was hospitalized in October snd passed in February. You can’t tell me that isn’t enough time to arrange a phone call home. But the church wouldn’t allow it and she sure wasn’t allowed to return home for the funeral. But her younger brother was still here and he’d already been kicked out for pre marital relations (which ticked me off bc he stepped up at 17 and started working 2 jobs while attending school, saved every penny, created the nursery in his room, and adored and fell in love when that baby was born, just for him to find out months later she wasn’t even his child. It destroyed him and the church instead of being there for him in his time of need, turned their backs on him bc it didn’t matter that he was going to be a good dad, it mattered they weren’t married first! F that) but anyways, he did come to the services. After the reception/celebration of life get together where everyone just eats and talks about the good memories, my cousin and I decided we wanted to go get tattoos. We took our cousin with us and even now 20 years later I will forever remember the laughs he gave me and everyone in that tattoo shop on the second worst day of my life. Burying my mom. The hardest was the day she died. Even now my cousin hasn’t ever really asked about what happened while she was gone. She didn’t apologize for not being here. And that lack of an apology has caused some resentment and our bond has never been the same. My mom treated her like another daughter and she wouldn’t even think about coming home for this. It was almost like she had no choice. Her family even supported her staying across the globe to spread the word. It’s bull. Family should always come first and any religion that speaks the opposite, you have to literally prove you put religion before family isn’t a religion to me. That’s a cult. Oh, and then to leave the religion just a few years later was like a slap in the face to me. She will leave when their views about the lgbt+ go public?? They didn’t hide those views, they were well known the whole time her family practiced. But nowwwww her, her mom and her dad left the church. Believe me, I’m glad they left but the timing and reason will never sit comfortably with me. This cult hurts anyone it touches and anyone those people touch. The damage they cause to generations of family is unacceptable.

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