#1025 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,4
My story happened when I was 20 years old. I had not really attended church meetings from the time I turned 18 and moved away from home. One random Sunday…
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Legend for Consequences Suffered (CS):
- Inappropriate shame and guilt
- Childhood self-loathing
- Adulthood self-loathing
- Normalizing children to sexual questions by adult men. (Grooming)
- Sexual abuse. (Pedophilia)
- Impaired sexual relations after marriage.
- Years of recovery from childhood shaming. Often lasting decades.
- Suicide Ideation
- Attempted Suicide
- Suicide of a loved one or friend.
#1024 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7
When I was twelve I began meeting with my bishop to seek forgiveness for masturbating. The guilt and shame I felt daily was crippling and I just wanted it to…
#1023 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3. Other: Worse Behaviors ,Still not over it
When I was 12 years old, I had sexual feelings from touching my vagina. I told my LDS Bishop about these feelings and he threatened to Excommunicate me from the…
#1022 Katherine B. CS: 1,3
I grew up in Kirkland Washington and moved to Utah when I was 10 years old. I was not a member of the church. I had always had a lot…
#1021 Name Withheld. CS: 1,2,3,4,7,8,9. Other: Victim blaming
I have a few stories so I’ll keep them brief. A bit of background, I’m a 21 year old woman from a multi generational Mormon family on my mom’s side…
#1020 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Extreme discomfort with all male leaders and a fear to come out to my family about this issue.
I am a biromantic asexual female. As I started realizing I had feelings for other girls, I became progressively more guilty about having urges to pursue romantic relationships with them.…
#1019 Name Hidden. CS: 4
Thank you for your work. Your work helps us to be safe, even though I couldn’t convince my teenagers that it is good to have a parent with them…
#1018 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Other: Ideas of self-mutilation
I first stated masturbation at a young age. It was a secret I kept. I felt awkward about it when other boys talked about it as they learned about sex…
#1017 Name Hidden. CS: 1,4
When I was 15, I was called in for my tithing meeting by the 1st counselor of my ward. I was asked if I had participated in bestiality. I did…
#1016 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,5,7,8
Approximately 11 years ago I was busy with work and school as well as dealing mentally with the loss of my mom to suicide a few years prior. I let…
#1015 Name Hidden. CS: Other: Schock
This happened in Marseille, France approximately in 1969. I was being interviewed by my Branch President for a Patriarchal Blessing. I was 18/19 years old at the time. After asking…
#1014 Jennifer L. CS: 1,2,4,5,7
I am sharing my story in hopes that it helps others to know they are not alone in their feelings, in their experiences and in their trauma, but also to…
#1013 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,6
I am 100 percent positive that my story is not even close to being the worst one out there. I felt so ashamed by my body as a child that…
#1012 Tori L. CS: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8. Other: Severe alcoholism
This story belongs to my mother. In 1970, in Salem, Utah, C.G. was a naive and innocent 11 year old, happy and willing to babysit the children of her Sunday…
#1011 Ashlyn K. CS: 1,2,3,4
I am no longer a member, but was an active and faithful member for the first 21 years of my life. I was accustomed to the “worthiness” interviews from the…
1010 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,7,8.
Even though I was a fatherless Mormon Boy, my Mormon childhood was great all the way up until the dreadful day my testes started to produce semen and that is…
1009 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3. Other: Destroyed Marriage
I’m writing to say this petition doesn’t go far enough. As good faithful members, my wife and I have always been instructed throughout our lives to speak to the Bishop…
1008 Name Hidden. CS: 1,2,3,7,8
Masturbation. Just before turning 12, I was called in for an interview with the Bishop prior to becoming a deacon. One of his questions was if I have a problem…
1007 Lisa P.F. CS: 1,4,6. Other: my voice doesnt matter; the rules dont apply to mormon men they can do what they want
First of all Thank You! I never considered this happened to anyone else. I was raised in the church with my own father as a bishop when I was 15…
1006 Name Hidden. CS: 1,3,7. Other: Distrust in authority figures
I was raised in the Mormon church, until I decided to leave it behind at around age 19. I was fairly lucky in that my family wasn’t very active in…