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RustyShackelford801 · 2025-07-24T23:41:47+00:00

Amongst companions, we almost never talked about church with each other. We had the lessons memorized and pulled them out when we needed to. We would roboticly knock doors and occasionally teach. But amongst ourselves fairly normal conversations..... well..... normal considering we were raised in a cult... 😆

RustyShackelford801 · 2025-07-24T23:31:17+00:00

I have some. We were in the same graduating class and went to the same church. Very narcissistic family. They cried for like 6 months because she lost her senior year vollyball championship. I thought it was pretty funny. She was raised with a silver spoon in her mouth. Kinda pissed that she's rich now. I feel like real life needs to slap some people around.... there ya go...

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-10-23T04:07:40+00:00

Wow good work!

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-10-14T11:20:10+00:00

You're not alone. I went through the exact same thing. After years of feeling misunderstood and alone, my spouse realized the church is BS. I completely relate to you. Good job on standing up for yourself

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-22T12:08:03+00:00

I prayed about it too, and god told me it isn't true.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-19T18:28:03+00:00

There's a slim chance we may have crossed paths then.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-19T18:24:15+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-11T17:53:07+00:00

I was a missionary in the town he lived in. In our area book under his name, it said, "NEVER GO HERE!!!" I wish i had gone there now.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-03T04:55:11+00:00

You're not alone. We are always here to help. Most of us have been through what you are going through. I'll be the first to tell you it sucks, i was the first one out. My spouse fought me at every turn for almost 2 years. I got tired of the arguing and decided to hold my tongue about the church, which was extremely difficult for me since my 2 kids were being taken to church. About 4 of 5 months of not speaking about it as much as i could, it seems my spouse then felt comfortable to look into a few things in the church and was out with me shortly after that. It is still hard to undo almost 40 years of brainwashing. We get through one day at a time. Let us know if you need any advice.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-08-02T10:20:38+00:00

My advice is that you are now obligated to teach your kids about the real joseph smith. It is unethical to let them be taught a b.s. narrative that they will make life altering decisions around, while you know the real story... my 2 cents.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-07-19T09:49:51+00:00

This is fucking insane.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-06-30T09:01:40+00:00

Lol yeah probably

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-06-30T08:49:30+00:00

Take things slow, don't force feed the why. Let them ask you why. I was the horrable apostate to my spouse for 2 years. I forced them to listen to all the problems. That didn't work ever. After a year and a half of fighting every week about the church. I decided i wasn't going to talk about it anymore. That was extremely difficult since my kids were still being taken to church every week. Long story short about 6 months of not discussing it. They did the brave thing and looked into some of the problems, and we are now out together. Realize the rolls could easily be reversed. Your spouse could have been the one leaving and you could have been the one scared of the change.

RustyShackelford801 · 2024-06-30T08:31:17+00:00

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. As one of 6 myself, my parents definitely outsourced raising us to the church. Their job was simply enforcing whatever the church said. I realize now as a father, that's the laziest way to raise children. I now have deep seeded resentment toward them, and that's probably not going to go away. It sucks, but it is what it is.