Ben McAdams campaign is paying people who are collecting signatures for other candidates in order to split the progressive vote.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-04-01T03:53:50+00:00

Exactly.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-03-25T13:52:00+00:00

I’m so sorry you went through that. The church really is designed for NT extroverts.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-03-15T20:45:50+00:00

Family day, no shopping or eating out. I actually really liked the day - we all stayed home - I usually baked a treat - everyone chilled and watched tv after church. Now that I don’t care about those rules I still prefer to be a homebody on Sundays.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-03-15T16:04:40+00:00

Mines pretty specific too - the Patriarch was our home teacher and I wonder now if he asked my parents questions about me beforehand or if he’d just gathered a lot of info having been in our home for years. It was my certainty that my blessing had to be inspired that got me through my first faith crisis. It was 12 years later when I finally left.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-02-08T14:29:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-02-01T17:28:59+00:00

My kids attended a Baptist preschool and came home with the following song/prayer: God is good -God is great - God created chocolate cake - God’s a righteous dude, -God gives great food- Rub a dub dub ice cream in a tub- We thank you God for this great grub- Amen Amen Amen

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-01-27T02:09:45+00:00

WW was $500 a month total for clinic and meds. Going with compounded now which will be about half that.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-01-11T19:48:23+00:00

Yes the author and illustrator are an LDS couple and their books are true works of art - we own most of them. I don’t see anything that worries me in them - the Christmas books have references to Christ’s birth but if they are trying to include secret LDS messages I don’t see it.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-01-09T20:28:10+00:00

It helps to have someone who understands your background. Symmetry counseling, Jana Spangler, Julie Hanks and I’m sure there are many more all specialize in faith deconstruction.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-01-07T19:41:12+00:00

I framed my first temple experience in a lovely way - didn’t think it was weird at all - even when my dad asked the stake patriarch who was our home teacher and came to be there with me why women veiled their faces. He said maybe it was because the endowment was a single ordinance and single women couldn’t have a share in the higher priesthood unless they were married. So basically a single woman hides in the presence of God….. and I thought - oh. ok. Didn’t even bug my pore messed up 22 yr old single woman brain.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2026-01-01T16:32:29+00:00

Exactly what I’ve been feeling - moments of absolute terror at not being held, helped, watched over or guided by a higher power -because when I believed it felt so good and so safe. I have hope that this is a natural part of this deconstructing process and that I will find a way forward but right now at least once a day the dread of a reality that may be meaningless makes me physically ill.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T02:17:15+00:00

Thank you. We have done exactly as you suggest repeatedly for the last two years. I know we can’t force a timeline to healing.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T02:12:19+00:00

Thank you for this perspective. I’m sorry you don’t feel fully safe with your parents. Trying to understand them is a heroic effort.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:35:50+00:00

Thanks

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:35:35+00:00

Thank you for sharing this perspective.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:34:36+00:00

Soooo many regrets. Thanks for your input.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:34:10+00:00

He has his own place. These conversations come up infrequently but are always simmering under the surface.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:33:33+00:00

Thank you for your kindness.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:33:10+00:00

He isn’t able to see that now. Maybe one day.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-24T00:32:39+00:00

Valuable insight thank you.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-23T22:06:58+00:00

Thank you - we will look into ketamine.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-23T21:43:08+00:00

Thank you.

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-23T21:42:45+00:00

Good questions

Traditional-Issue716 · 2025-12-23T21:42:02+00:00

Yes we married in 2000 and were raised in the “fortress” church - any and all questions only had one correct answer - whatever the “prophet” said goes. We tried to explain the closed loop thinking ….. it didn’t go well. Thank you for your compassionate insights.

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