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Answering the phone

Participating in holidays

I didn't know you could go no contact with bio family so thank you to the pioneers

I'm 37. I am an ex-mormon.

I cannot tell you how traumatized and messed up growing up in the church left me. I was brain washed from birth.

If she's still this set in it, I would not have hope. She will always choose what the old guys tell her to do.

I hope you go out into this world and find whomever it is that really fits you.

I got married when I was only 21, but after being raised in the church that felt much older than the 17 to 19 year olds. I did not marry a Mormon.

I am only just now really making headway in my healing. I've been at it for two years with a therapist but was working on my own previously.

My upbringing in the church still haunts my life today.

Well, I don't know, each individual person's definition of weird is different.

Allergies:

Wheat (not just the gluten, the whole plant)

Soy

Pumpkin

Eggs

Walnuts

The sun

My own sweat

Latex

Nickel

Adhesive and Adhesive remover

I feel like the Pumpkin one is pretty strange.

Eta Adhesive and remover

I don't know but my MIL has one or did at one point.

I will confirm that theory.

I was raised in a high demand religious cult. I did not know you could choose to not have kids until I was already very pregnant.

My wife and I read, also, 2 of our 3 kids enjoy reading, the 3rd is catching on.

The red cross.

The attendant assigned to monitor me for my donation was flirting so hard at the other attendant that she managed to mess up, badly. I'm not sure what she messed up but people were freaking out and my attendant was asking "how do I put it back?" Things got a bit fuzzy. They almost sent me via ambulance to the ER for a blood transfusion but after calculating my estimated blood volume vs the over donation it was decided that I was probably going to be okay. There were questions about liability that I overheard as they tried to reason out how long to observe me before allowing me to drive home. The main worry being that I could pass out. It freaked me out. Then I couldn't donate because I was pregnant or recovering from pregnancy or surgeries. I do plan to begin donating once the kids are back in school.