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J :
So spending a significant portion of my childhood memorizing Bible verses and getting tiny gems in a vest wasn’t normal? 😂
2026-10-26 14:25:58
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Megan Elizabeth Moore :
My boyfriend has asked me multiple times, “what did they do to you? 😳“ when I’m talking about things I used to believe or things that were done/said to me. It blows peoples minds what I grew up with
2026-11-07 16:02:41
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somewhereinbetween :
Ex jw here. Peoples jaws literally drop. They are stunned to silence. It helps me realize I wasn’t making it up. It was really actually that bad.
2026-10-26 19:54:55
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Dani :
The looks I get range from 😳-🥺 and any where in between!! You took me out with the “secular” friends 😂
2026-10-26 15:26:08
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🦌 :
I show people the documentary Jesus Camp and find healing in how shocked people are at the very life I grew up in
2026-10-26 17:57:30
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yeah. :
my wife was raised agnostic by a witch, her only experiences with christianity were going to her grandmother's baptist church a few times as a kid and general american culture osmosis. i was raised church of christ, we met when i was at the very beginning of deconstructing (the "holding on for dear life" phase, specifically). every so often i'll think of some new insane bullshit i was involved in with those churches and watch her mentally grapple with it, it's v gratifying
2026-10-26 17:59:09
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Rebekah Darder ᨒ Photographer :
I knew my husband was the one when I saw the look on his face when we attended an evangelical wedding and the pastor was going over how the wife needs to submit for like 5-10 minutes. he was horrified.
2026-10-26 17:45:52
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musician4hire :
My upbringing was vanilla compared to casting demons out of objects, but this is still 100% applicable. Just coping with young earth creationism and the rapture is much.
2026-10-26 19:19:57
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Bambi Beckett Fantasy Author :
😂😂 yea. my aunt wouldn't let us watch certain movies at her house because demons could come through the TV screen. Meeeeeemoriesssss ✨
2026-10-26 14:11:51
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Ghost Mama :
saying things out loud and seeing their faces is almost therapy. actually to me, it is therapy. helps me heal to have those realizations and be so happy that I'm not like that anymore.
2026-10-26 13:36:23
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gameof_shadows :
This, but more in my therapy sessions than with friends. It felt very validating when my therapist, a professional and incredible person, would look at me with genuine concern when I told her things I was taught to believe about myself or the Christian faith that were harmful. I at first brushed it off as "no big deal" but as we kept going deeper I realized how much I was hurting from it all, how much it damaged me mentally and emotionally. We've worked very hard for a long time to deconstruct those things and unravel the web of harm that existed in my brain. I'm not 100% free of those things, probably never will be since it was engrained since childhood, but I feel so much freer, so much happier knowing my worth is not tied to following or accepting cruelty and control masked as what is "right".
2026-10-26 13:58:53
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Kayl Hale :
my favorite way I've ever described my childhood to my husband was "Babe, you grew up with Batman, I grew up with Bibleman." 😂
2026-10-26 22:55:36
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Ash Helgard :
Nothing makes my secular wife go "wtf" quite like my random lore drops about growing up as a pastor's kid. She now has beef with organized religion, and it's mostly my fault. 😂
2026-10-26 21:21:14
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Kyle McFerran :
yeah. I don't talk about the "Spiritual war" I was on the front lines of for the first 2.5 decades of my life with civilians. lol
2026-10-28 15:44:23
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Hannah Steever :
I thought purtiy rings meant your parents found you to be "good enough".....I was the last one in my friend group to get one. Yeah still unpacking THAT one 🤣🤣
2026-10-26 20:28:25
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B4icareless :
i love when they ask "how did you not realize you were in a cult" um i dont know susan i was BORN IN!!!
2026-10-27 15:21:52
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AidensMom13 :
Omg. So true. The faces I get 😳
2026-11-05 23:57:47
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RedheadinEvergreens❌ :
For real. My husband was like, “babe, that was abuse!” And I was like, holy shit, you’re right!
2026-10-26 19:01:28
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PrimaDee :
My husband loves it when I yap about my child hood in assembles of god church’s 🤣 he says it’s like learning about a cult from a first hand experience 🤣🤣🤣
2026-10-26 20:46:39
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leviza :
This reminds me I have to tell my wife about how I went to state level bible drill 3 years in a row
2026-11-02 01:16:55
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Tiana :
Anybody else have to hold hands and stand in a circle at family events and go one by one saying “Jesus wept” or “lord is my Shepard” and then have say a prayer in unison, while watching your grandmother “shake”
2026-10-26 22:16:22
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Ope :
This. But the people I’m telling about my experiences are my kids.
2026-10-26 18:55:56
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Cat :
Talking to fellow exvangelicals has been super healing, too. It’s confirmation that in sane stuff we were told as kids wasn’t just some fever dream or overreaction. It happened, it was weird, and it’s ok to be mad about it
2026-10-26 19:08:46
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Meadowlark Antiques :
You are one of my favorite voices on here, I swear
2026-10-27 00:33:43
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cdiver1988 :
I had talked about it a few times with my best friend, but I don't think he got it until I told him to watch the Jesus Camp documentary because it was how I grew up. He was shocked.
2026-10-26 21:35:41
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