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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

It's not that bad to deal with really, since I no longer look for their acceptance or approval. I can show up to the family reunions with a flat of beer in my cooler, smoke Backwoods cigars around the fire, get up in the morning and have a coffee and Bailey's, and not have the least bit of guilt or apprehension that I am further from salvation than my judgemental relatives. I also find it hilarious that a family with such high morals and strict definition of marriage has a 60% divorce rate. It would seem vows before god aren't as eternal as originally thought. I actually am able to have fun with it now. It certainly is fuel for my resentment of organised religion though.

Heres a link to some ex Mormons and what they have gone through trying to leave the Morman Church.

http://www.exmormon.org/stories.htm