Good for you. Congrats! My 20 yr old is marrying her Mormon bf in a few months.
She is all ingrained with his family. The boy’s mother flew from NY to Hawaii
this week, in the middle of a pandemic, just to be the photographer for their
engagement photos! His family stops at nothing to overtake and control my
daughter. His mother even wants to pick out her wedding dress! Sadly my
daughter sees all of this as his mom just showering her with Mormon
unconditional love. I’m pretty much done. I don’t know who my daughter is
anymore. And sadly what I do know, I don’t really like. His family is planning
the entire wedding. I am a quiet bystander. To protect myself, I just keep her
at a distance which then of course, reinforces that she is not like us anymore.
But my daughter is so hurtful to us that keeping her distant keeps me healthy
even if it helps her be more Mormonized. She’s always been a child easy to
influence. Self centered, loud and silly to hide her lack of self confidence.
It breaks my heart.
Have a fantastic day! Karen Centonze, Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 17, 2020, at 10:03 PM, Richard Packham <packham@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sometimes we forget that what we thought would never happen, actually does
happen.
My entire extended family is Mormon - my brothers and sisters and all my
nieces and nephews. But I just learned that one of my nieces (father a former
bishop, married in the temple to a devout Mormon from a high-up Mormon
family) has figured out that it's not true, and is determined not to raise
her two young ones as Mormon. It's causing some rough times in her marriage,
of course, but she is very strong-willed.
Who would have thought?