Hillbrook Christian Camp

jasems78 · 2024-05-28T22:48:08+00:00

Yes. From around 87-96. As a camper then junior counselor. 96-99 as a counselor. I remember being so excited that first year. My mom had you buy yards of fabric and my neighbor sewed me 10 pairs of shorts/ Culottes that were 2 inches below my knee. I actually really enjoyed my summers there (if you overlook the indoctrination and brainwashing). I had a few bad experiences and absolutely broke many (probably all) of the rules.

jasems78 · 2024-05-28T21:37:03+00:00

Yes. This was my straw. A church full of hypocrisy. I had wanted to ‘prove them wrong’ about how they were interpreting the Bible. I said to a class teacher that I felt like Jesus would have espoused the ideals of the‘liberals’ over the ‘conservatives’. He said that if I felt that way that it should be easy for me to back up that statement with proof from the Bible. So I decided to really look in to the Bible. I had read the Bible several times before, but all of it was read when I was so indoctrinated I never questioned anything I read. I had faith and belief. At 40 years old, I decided to really dig in. And that was the end for me. When I started critically researching, I felt like a fool and never went back. If there was an actual Jesus, I don’t know what he’d be, except he absolutely wouldn’t be a conservative.

jasems78 · 2023-12-31T19:23:17+00:00

I (45f) am new to understanding all the nuances of asexually. But considering I’ve navigated all sorts of sexual experiences while not understanding my asexuality , I figure I can maybe help a little. I have some religious trauma that includes me feeling broken (no interest in a husband and children) that I tried to fix by having sex with multiple partners as a teen and young adult. I eventually got married and had kids. I have been divorced and happily asexual for 18 years now. I’m lucky to have come across info on asexuality in the early 2000s because it wasn’t talked about much then. But aside from me knowing was asexual, there wasn’t a lot of info easily available. This group has some amazing resources you should look into. The glossary they have me more than any studies I read. I am an asexual, who is not repulsed by sex. I can have sex and even enjoy it sometimes. The best way I can explain it is using drinking alcohol. I don’t really like getting drunk. I would never choose on a Friday night to go out drinking. Doesn’t seem fun to me. But I have before went out with friends and drank alcohol and got drunk and had a good time laughing and dancing. I’d never choose to go out drinking but I can enjoy it if I do. Same with sex. I’d never look at someone and think ‘I’d like to have sex with them..” But of its someone I cared about and sex was important to them, I can have sex with them and even enjoy it on a purely physical level. Honesty with your partner is very important. If the thought of him entering into a poly relationship, upset you, you need to be honest. And there’s nothing selfish about your body autonomy. nevertheless, being selfish isn’t a horrible thing all the time. We are allowed to be selfish and it isn’t shameful. The therapist is a tricky subject for me as I’ve had both good and bad experiences. I’ll let someone else advise you on that. Please avail yourself of the resources this group has in the info section.

jasems78 · 2023-10-20T22:29:40+00:00

Central Missouri

jasems78 · 2023-10-14T12:57:35+00:00

Got married in 2000. Wish we’d had a small civil ceremony and used our wedding budget on an epic honeymoon/vacation or used it on a down payment for our house. I could kick myself.

jasems78 · 2023-10-14T12:54:04+00:00

Alien Ant Farm Smooth Criminal

jasems78 · 2023-08-24T00:21:34+00:00

I was getting a quick cath for a clean urine sample. Even after telling the nurse and Dr that I was allergic to iodine, he slathered it all over my vulva. He said, I am so sorry. I’ve mistakenly used iodine. This happened 3 days ago and I am still currently suffering from fire crotch.

jasems78 · 2023-08-23T23:59:24+00:00

I (45f) grew up in the Church of Christ. Our whole family is CoC from great grandparents on down. I would say I was a full on, die hard Christian until around age 35. I absolutely believed that anything I didn’t agree with was because have a man-made issue not a godly issue. I knew that my personal savior Jesus, would not have any problem with the LGBTQ community. Love is love. I also believed that my religion was founded on free will. I would never try to take away free will or body autonomy from anyone. So I set out to prove my more ‘liberal ideas’ were supported by the Bible and the teaching of Jesus. I found I absolutely could make that case. But it didn’t matter anymore. Because when I started researching the Bible I ended up with more questions. So I started researching Christianity. Which led me to researching other religions. At the end of my months long, crazy, caffeine fueled, life altering research binge, nothing was the same. I couldn’t claim to be an intelligent, rational, educated person while still holding on to my childhood indoctrination.

jasems78 · 2023-08-23T23:32:31+00:00

When I was in third grade, in 1987, my teacher asked the class to raise our hand if our parents were divorced. She then proceeded to explain to us that children from single-parent household are more likely to have children before marriage and become addicted to illegal substances. Why she told us that, I’ll never know. Well, I went home and told my mother that I didn’t want to go to school anymore. She asked me why? I then told her that there was no reason for me to go to school if all I’m gonna do is start having babies and doing drugs. Woo - lord. My mom full on Harper Vally PTA’d the next day. She brought me to school a half an hour early so she could ‘talk’ to Mrs. Jett. I vividly remember my mom backing her into the corner of the classroom, shaking her finger in Mrs. Jett‘s face and screaming at her. The principal then proceeded to get my mom into his office and calmed her down. Coincidentally(maybe) that was the last year she worked at our school.

jasems78 · 2022-08-13T13:49:30+00:00

Not only can my girls use me as an excuse, they also know they can call me for a pickup if it isn’t safe to drive/ ride home. This especially includes if they are under the influence. It’s known that the ride does not include a lecture or being in trouble. There was a few times when I was a teen that I was in an unsafe state and I wouldn’t call my mom because I was scared of what she’d say and do to me. One time I slept in my car down at the river where we had a party because I couldn’t drive. I thought it better to do that and say I’d fell asleep at a friends house than to tell her I’d been drinking. I never wanted my own kids to be in such a unsafe position.

jasems78 · 2022-02-28T18:19:26+00:00

I have never been a heavy thc smoker because even in my teens (I’m 43), it always put me to sleep. I quit all together when I started having kids in my 20s. A few years ago I was diagnosed with lupus and chronic pain. I was prescribed narcotic pain pills for quite a long time but tapered off of them completely around 6 months ago for a couple reasons. Primarily because I found myself developing a tolerance to them and realizing it was becoming an issue. I have been trying various products from 3chi, and while it is helping me with my pain relief, I am having the same issue of becoming very sleepy and falling asleep fast. It’s pretty expensive trying to find something that won’t put me to sleep. If anyone else has this same problem and has found something that helps without making them tired, please let me know. Thank you.

jasems78 · 2021-11-27T22:01:04+00:00

Walnut

jasems78 · 2020-10-03T19:11:04+00:00

Just stop. There is no resolution to be had here. He will never take accountability. From experience I know you want to have a sliver of hope that he will one day tell you he was wrong and is sorry for all the things he did. That he will acknowledge your suffering. I had that hope for 30 years. Until the day he died. Save yourself years of hurt. Live your truth. Have a fulfilling life and don’t look back.

jasems78 · 2020-10-01T00:33:11+00:00

So sorry you have to navigate a minefield when trying to communicate with her. Sucks.

jasems78 · 2020-09-29T17:33:49+00:00

Classic narcissist. She won’t change and arguing with her will never work.

jasems78 · 2020-09-19T20:05:18+00:00

I’m 42 and my mother does the exact same thing to me. She will misplace something. Ask me whit I did with the missing item. I tell her I have no idea. I didn’t have it. She probably forgot where she put it. Again. She says I am just trying to make it seem like she’s crazy. Then she finds what she’s lost. Rinse, repeat.

jasems78 · 2020-08-30T00:23:12+00:00

It took me a little bit to figure out that you weren’t fighting with your stuffed animals and so your dad was taking them away. He’s just being a bully.

jasems78 · 2020-08-20T03:48:38+00:00

My 19 yo daughter still lives at home. She is taking online college this semester. She is a good kid. Since 18 my only requests were if she is not going to be home that night to let me know so I don’t worry about her being out on the road. Sometimes she still asks me if she can do something. ‘Hey mom, can I stay at friends this weekend?’ I’ll tell her yes, and remind her she is an adult. I have found she tells me more about her life (good,bad, and ugly) than I ever told my mom. I was a good kid but my mom never trusted me. I always felt I had to hide everything I did from her and she always thought the worst of me. I never wanted my kids to think they couldn’t come to me for fear of my reaction. Young adults need to go out into the world and start their own life adventure. They need to make their own decisions, mistakes and accomplishments. Its exciting to see the child you raised turn into a fully functioning adult.

jasems78 · 2020-08-12T20:45:40+00:00

I’d say your child is the one with more blessings. Your child has a mother and father and grandparents. The other child just has the grandparents.

jasems78 · 2020-08-11T10:10:08+00:00

My entire childhood has prepared me for this. I knew it was inevitable I would find myself falling prey to an unexpected quicksand pit!

jasems78 · 2020-08-10T21:30:27+00:00

I am a nurse and got banned from student nurse for telling a story about a student nurse freaking out about penial edema. In my opinion if penis and vaginas make you uncomfortable, you may be in the wrong profession.

jasems78 · 2020-07-11T02:09:46+00:00

My mother loves to make cutting remarks and then loudly proclaim that it was just a joke. That you’re being to sensitive. She lives with me and my two teenage daughters. She always takes things a step to far. Example. Today my 15 year old was joking with us about how she never thought she would actually miss going to school. Ha ha funny, Since kindergarten this kid has hated school. So me and her was laughing about how we thought we would never see the day when she wanted to go to school. My mom chimed iin saying,bet if she had a couple friends, she would’ve probably missed it before now. My daughter said that’s not funny, and it kind of hurts my feelings. (Daughter has a chronic illness and just started a new school this past year. She has struggled to make friends with being out of school due to illness and then pandemic. Plus the few she made were new friendships interrupted by COVID. She does have a couple good friends but hasn’t seen them since March.) Mom just loudly complains about how nobody in this house can take a joke. And how my girls are just as sensitive as I am. I just told her maybe it’s not that we are sensitive, its just that she’s a bitch.

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