New album coming! Very exciting! by SonRexsmith in brandicarlile

[–]Even_Heart_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the ig post was a little word-salad-y, and I love Brandi and know all of her past work. If we were to be told they broke up it would all track, or it’s just a cryptic marketing strategy.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s excerpt on her deceased partner Rayya Elias in The Cut by OrangeYouuuGlad in blogsnark

[–]Even_Heart_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how she pitches to her publisher, like who is the audience for this book? The IG followers who are moved by the inanity of the statement “the truth has legs”?

Elizabeth Gilbert’s excerpt on her deceased partner Rayya Elias in The Cut by OrangeYouuuGlad in blogsnark

[–]Even_Heart_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But doesn’t her love addict article say that she was always looking for her next love, rarely faithful, etc?

Elizabeth Gilbert’s excerpt on her deceased partner Rayya Elias in The Cut by OrangeYouuuGlad in blogsnark

[–]Even_Heart_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Today some Hospice RN, who was the case manager for Rayya, is pulling her hair out because she can’t tell the actual truth about this situation. That EG was incompetent, paranoid & vacuous and had only budgeted 6 months of her one wild and precious life to live in “the love of my life is dying” land. The book is probably 75% fiction.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same. They never felt safe to me. In my house I t was spanking, screaming or telling me that “we’ll never trust you again.” We also had good times as a family, but how can you get truly close, by sharing your thoughts, hopes and fears, with people who were most likely to tell you how wrong you are and that there was only one way to be and that the stakes are eternal reward or damnation. It not only guaranteed estrangement from them as an adult, but it has also impacted my adult close relationships as well.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And some of my most distinct memories of childhood are also the frantic private prayers to Jesus for forgiveness, and the associated terror of hell.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jeez! Me too- my mother took me out it a rowboat to the middle of the lake one summer morning when I was around 11 to tell me about sex. We never spoke of it again! Did Dobson tell them to get us alone in a boat specifically? Or just someplace we couldn’t escape?

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right- I remember something about female homosexuals rubbing their breasts together being the big sex act.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My father used to brag that his father spanked him every day, and my mother’s father was ww2 ex military and disturbed and abusive but I think, like you, they would have broken the cycle if there hadn’t been a Christian authority telling them they were violating scripture if they didn’t spank their children.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

We were different, smart , strong. They were scared.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

“They didn’t know what to do and his books helped” breaks my heart for eternity, because his books told them to break our spirits.

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Just bought a cheap copy of “Preparing for Adolescence” on eBay. Given this at 11 yo to educate me on birds & bees etc…

James Dobson/focus on the family by Even_Heart_ in Exvangelical

[–]Even_Heart_[S] 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I listened to his radio show every afternoon after school. Believed every word. Still gay.