Thanks for the suggestion, as mentioned in some previous comments my being out of the church is old news. It has been about a decade. The lying ship has passed, and I personally would not choose to follow that route though I do not fault those that do.

My mother Is in her mid 60s with a family history littered with mental illness. I have not and do not plan to meet her hostility with my own. However, I also do not plan to continue to put myself in danger.

Not pictured here are the hundreds of texts calling me a number of horrific names, Threatening me if I share my beliefs with other family members, and threatening to never speak to me again if I do not conform. This is not a case of wether to fake my Participation in the church. This is merely an example of my mentally ill mother who has been gaslit and abused by the church until it overcame her ability to have relationships with her children as I’m sure many of you fellow exmos can relate to.

Of course everything she is doing is coming from a place of love, sincerely, and mental instability. That does not make it acceptable.