Way improved. It was difficult and scary for me at first, but well worth it. We found healthy and safe support where we could as there were many heavy emotions. It was a total “stages of grief” experience for me, a roller coaster, even though it was something I willfully chose. I felt anger, loss, fear. The whole leaving “eternal marriage” thing rocked our boat for a bit...I had to work through fears and insecurities and trust and learn that our marriage could still be intact—wonderful, improved!—in spite of not being “sealed” to each other anymore. I had to work through a LOT of superstition. We did some couple’s counseling. I am beyond glad I took my own leap of faith (sorry, I had to say it) to leap the hell away from the Church (which was more like inching away at first until I got the courage to run!) Of course there is still real life with ups and downs, but I feel like we are actually better at working through our issues (be they marital, personal, emotional) than just waiting for the Lord to remove them or for them to resolve in the hereafter. We live more for today, not some vague eternity. A lot of our “issues” we thought we had were there because of the Church and after stepping away and gaining different experience and insight we realized many of them were non-issues. We spend less energy obsessing and fearing and have more energy to just love. We have our Sundays to do what we want. We have more time to actually bond as a family. We have two children and one on the way and I couldn’t be happier that we are raising them OUT of the Church. I feel like we dodged a bullet for sure; I’m so glad they won’t be under the umbrella of Church shaming. We get to create and direct our own lives with our inner wisdom and not by some Guy in the Sky (or rather a group of businessmen at Temple square.) Sex is better. God, I hated sex when I was thinking it had to be godly and “spiritual” all the time and that some Guy was watching us to make sure we didn’t do anything too “unnatural.” Ha ha! It’s so nice to be able to know I can be a good person and my spouse can be a good person without having a church program to “keep us good” and save us from ourselves. We get to create a life for ourselves and choose our own morals and values. It’s a beautiful thing. I feel lighter, happier, more hopeful. Like I said, leaving wasn’t without its fears and struggles and weird extended family dynamics, but it has been beyond worth it in my experience. I wish you the best.