This is the first post in quite a while, and for a good reason. I'd like to think that we have made further progress on our transition out of the church. It still comes up in conversation when things remind us about it, and I still go to the ex-Mormon discussion boards for updates, but it's not the obsession it used to be.
It will still be a long time before we hardly think about it at all, but we're getting there. We're still running the bi-weekly Ogden PostMos coffee meetups and met some really great people. Some of their stories have bits of humor and irony in them, and a lot of them have hurt and sadness because they were rejected by spouses and family after announcing their disaffection from the church. For a lot of them, their personal integrity was too strong to continue to pretend to believe and smile when they know the truth about the church.
But recently it's been being brought up a little more often because of a few things. General Conference is the main one, but along with it comes all the Facebook updates that our friends make about it. Hearing the chatter about the new "film" (I'm loathe to call it that, as it resembles an infomercial more than anything) also does it. Admittedly, a lot of it is because we live in Utah. Had we been living somewhere else, it would not have been as big of a deal when we left, nor would we have to hear about it all the time on TV or at work.
Still, we like living here and have no plans to move because of it. There's just too much we love about living so close to just about everything (except the ocean, much to Anne's chagrin). So we will continue to endure and hope that we can help some others do the same.
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