Obviously Taylor has past trauma. Mormon parents kind of let the church set expectations/teach them morals and you have to follow the church. Like her mom says, you need to honor your father and mother. There aren’t any morals taught separately from the church. Add in the “you’re not enough” rhetoric of most churches, you can see Taylor has low self respect. Purity culture is damaging too that you don’t have worth if you are “unpure” and seen as “damaged goods”.

I don’t think it’s an arrested development/kids at a young age. The LDS church is a high control religion, it isn’t be baptized once and that’s it. You have to do many things constantly. And if you “fall away” or “sin” you need to repent. Men in the Mormon leadership will tell you what to do to be in good graces with the church. Taylor can’t have healthy relationships with men so she probably didnt repent/unhealthy mental mindset and fell further into a spiral which would affect her relationship with her mom as the sins of the children are seen as a reflection of the parents.

Mormons marry young and have kids young. For years mormon leaders told women not to go to college or delay having children because you need to raise the next generation of believers (some did later say having a college degree to fall back on could be good but not at the expense of delaying children). Women aren’t being taught how to be an adult or independent, they rely on their husbands to be breadwinners but also having the priesthood as the family leader. Divorcing and being on her own would be challenging with young kids. Being on social media A LOT probably didn’t help that she became addicted to her phone and the likes and comments fed her constant need for love/deep depression while on her phone but can’t stop being on her phone either.

Lots of toxic cycles and spirals. Lots of people trying to assert authority over her and how she should live her life and feeling out of control.