To those who were once believers and are now atheists, some advice?

[*Deidre*]

I kinda know that pain.

In my case the only person i lost cause of religion differences was actually "love of my life" I madly fell in love with a girl who was a Jehovah's Whitness. Religion was very important to her and She was very fundamental about it.
Even though i told her that there are solid evidence that shows her beliefs are very unlikely to be true, She didn't care. I guess i weren't more important to her than beliefs She held. Anyway we couldnt be together because She wanted to be only with another JW believer.

The weird thing is i kinda deal with things like that pretty fast. I don't know why... maybe i just don't care

I think the best thing to do is just surround yourself with good, positive people. We're gonna meet a lot of them in our life and we're gonna make a lot of new friends... maybe even better friends than we expect

Cool u dealt with this fast. Can you teach me how not to care? And your advice is spot on, indeed. I have other good friends who care about me, and I, them. So...gotta keep it moving, I guess. Thx for chiming in.

Sounds like she did you a favor in some ways, seeing that if she wanted a partner who followed the faith too, that would have been difficult for her to compromise, and even more difficult if you felt pressured to go along with it.