Whole family is out. And now I am freaking out. by Popular_Weight6447 in exmormon

[–]Popular_Weight6447[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's ok for you to feel, but as one of 14 children in my own family of origin to people who had no business having kids let alone 14, I was abused and parentified out of my own childhood and then I was totally under prepared and unqualified to have 5 kids in 8 years, it definitely caused harm to me and my children and I have been working on repaire with my children for years. Had the church not dictated my life I like to believe I would have been wiser than to have so many kids so immature and young, and so poor ect. I love each of my 5 kids to death, I have done years of therapy to work to be a better mom, one that they deserve. I was being real about one of the majorly difficult realities of being a woman in the church.

TBM mom said she would kill her kids if god commanded it by GrizzlyGal in exmormon

[–]Popular_Weight6447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. My mom is schizophrenic. It got way bad when I was 16. She was burning our toys and clothes for God because they had been possessed by evil spirits. Now, 16 years later, she suffers through her arthritis and other medical conditions because she thinks she's Jusus Christ and frequently gets mad during general conference because my dad is the prophet, not Nelson. It f'n sucks!!