#811 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Anger that I let my power as a mother be taken from me so easily, without a fight. Anger that the Bishop thought he could keep me out of the interview.

Hello, I am not sure if this story is being shared in the appropriate place. But I wanted my thoughts to go with Sam to his probable excommunication. When my daughter was 8 she was going in for her interview with our Bishop. She wanted me to come in, she was nervous. I was going…

#810 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7. Other: Physical neglect from parents who could not recover mentally from their own abuse.

Something that I realized I needed to share was the generational effect of abuse victims. My father was raised in incestuous Mormon family. His father, the predator was at one point, a bishop, a school teacher, a temple worker. After decades of terrorizing his family and uncounted children not related, he was finally excommunicated after…