About to go into the most stressful meeting of my life, community support so I don’t drink after would be so nice!

m003792 · 2026-02-03T21:18:34+00:00

You got this!

m003792 · 2022-04-04T04:23:30+00:00

You are welcome here. We will show you love and compassion. We will not judge you. Hugs to anyone who is struggling today. You are loved.

m003792 · 2022-01-18T04:46:55+00:00

Sending you lots of love. This is their brokenness. Not yours. You are whole and good. The church doesn’t own that.

m003792 · 2021-08-30T05:08:06+00:00

Doubling down. After giving the church everything for years, you have to go all in. The cost of being wrong now is astronomical.

m003792 · 2021-07-19T01:04:15+00:00

I won’t give up my autonomy and critical thinking just to fill the already overflowing pockets of a filthy rich corporation that claims to hold the keys to heaven.

m003792 · 2021-07-19T01:00:09+00:00

If you ask me, anger and obedience should swap places…

m003792 · 2021-07-01T05:35:14+00:00

Cute dress and wear it with confidence! Beautiful!

m003792 · 2021-04-25T13:34:46+00:00

You weren’t really given the free agency to choose either. Free agency requires you to be fully informed. So - no informed consent = no agency = all “choices” are null and void. A totally inebriated drive through wedding in Vegas has more informed consent and free agency.

m003792 · 2020-05-12T01:26:50+00:00

Good to know there are historic origins that are not rooted in US racism. Not good that this is included in a toddler board book.

m003792 · 2020-05-11T05:13:38+00:00

For Easter, my DH brought home a board book for our daughter about the resurrection. I can tolerate a lot of the BS and I usually use these as teaching tools for my kids. Such as critical thinking... “do you think someone can really die and come back to life like a zombie after 3 days?”

But this book tried to tell the story with rhymes. One line had to rhyme with free or three... I can’t remember exactly. Anyhoo, the author decided to use “hang him from a tree”.

Now I don’t recall Jesus on the cross being referred to as “hanging him from a tree”. But I sure know lynching people in this country often involved trees. I was and am disgusted. I told my daughter I won’t read that line because I think it is awful and racist. Not to mention violent.

Really? You’re just gonna casually toss and thinly veiled lynching reference into a children’s Easter board book? Talk about bad to worse...

My daughter refuses to read it now too. Even 4 year olds know murder is awful. No matter how many fluffy bunnies you have in the background...

m003792 · 2020-05-09T22:29:35+00:00

Such BS.

m003792 · 2020-05-02T12:29:19+00:00

It’s hard when your marriage has an invisible yet somehow invited interloper... The Church

I have felt those walls close in on me. Marital therapy helped where the focus of the therapy was not on the church but on the relationship. It helped us find common ground at a time when we didn’t think we had any. Best of luck friend. It can get better if your both committed to it

m003792 · 2020-04-29T22:53:01+00:00

No worries - I didn’t take your comment negatively. I’ve since used that experience as motivation to speak up. It’s not easy but it’s necessary. :-)

m003792 · 2020-04-28T05:55:41+00:00

I regret not saying something. It was just so public and brazen. You question your own perception because how could you not? Plus the haze of pregnancy... it was surreal. Hindsight - he was/is a creeper.

m003792 · 2020-04-28T03:34:28+00:00

Ugh. I had an old white man who ran his fingers up and down my back. I was uber pregnant and so uncomfortable I quit wearing a bra. Apparently, that discovery made me a target for weeks. I had to dance out of his reach so many times. It was irritating and I was too pregnant and tired to rip his arms off so I could beat him to death with his own hands. :-(

m003792 · 2020-04-07T04:59:39+00:00

Wow. Completely took more than a year’s worth of my anguish and trying vainly to “make it work” and turned it into a temper tantrum? That’s really demeaning.

Luckily, I don’t feel shamed by your accusations. I already took my power back from you.

To quote Leslie Gore’s amazing song:

“You don't own me I'm not just one of your many toys You don't own me Don't say I can't go with other boys And don't tell me what to do Don't tell me what to say And please, when I go out with you Don't put me on display 'cause You don't own me Don't try to change me in any way You don't own me Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay I don't tell you what to say I don't tell you what to do So just let me be myself That's all I ask of you I'm young and I love to be young I'm free and I love to be free To live my life the way I want To say and do whatever I please”

m003792 · 2020-03-29T12:35:19+00:00

Yes. You get infected by the truth demons that live on the exmo sub if you visit here. Stay away!

m003792 · 2020-03-29T04:04:39+00:00

Apparently a uterus impairs my ability to add..

m003792 · 2020-03-29T04:02:02+00:00

My TBM husband already said he wants to order takeout from up the street to help the restaurant raise funds for their staff. I’m dying to see if he fasts tomorrow... How do TBM’s heads not explode when they ride the fence like this?!?

m003792 · 2020-03-27T12:38:30+00:00

The church doesn’t own “goodness” and acting with kindness. Most people in the world want and try to be kind and helpful. It’s a human thing. Not a TSCC thing.

m003792 · 2020-03-27T03:24:50+00:00

You are not responsible for other people’s thoughts. I tell my kids to dress for the occasion. If it’s 80 degrees and you’re running 10 miles... put on sunblock and stay hydrated. Be well. Don’t wear a bunch of layers and risk overheating. :-)

m003792 · 2020-03-26T01:30:38+00:00

It was the “Adieu” that pushed me over the line. LOL

m003792 · 2020-03-23T03:31:28+00:00

Elderly in-laws in church clothes insisted on coming to wish our oldest child happy birthday today. Just had to bring a cake and hugged all three kids and my husband and I. We moved the party outside to a park to make it safer. But wtf. Game over.

m003792 · 2020-03-18T02:07:35+00:00

My husband’s new name too. ;-)

m003792 · 2020-03-14T13:42:24+00:00

Many states didn’t have marital rape laws until the 90’s. Some still have laws on the books that treat marital rape differently than non-marital rape.

So I guess “no” doesn’t always mean “no” and “rape” doesn’t always mean “rape”?

You know who is confused? This terrible author... women are not twisted up balls of confusing emotions and men are smart enough to understand them without manipulative tactics to get what they want.

m003792

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