(June 28, 2020 at 8:44 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Last March? OK I am going to park that raw wound. Say as much or as little as you feel comfortable with sharing. No demands or expectations.
Yeah, kinda a fresh wound still. Although we had been kinda splitting up for the past year or so before and it had been a dead romance for quite a while, the way it ended really did hurt me.
But our problems weren't about his religious upbringing. If anything, he took that ultra religious, fundamentalist upbringing and went to the opposite, overly progressive extreme.
He came from a Mormon background, though. A lot of people would insist they're not "real" Christians and, yeah, they have some whacky beliefs (drinking coffee is a sin, Jews lived in the Americas when Jesus was alive, you have to wear temple garments and their leader is a profit who gets direction directly from god). They're so nice and friendly on the surface, that it can be difficult to see some of their more toxic beliefs, but, for example, they still didn't accept black people into the priesthood until the late 70's.
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
