I'm a life long Mormon and my family is very devout. My husband and I were married in the temple and went to church regularly until the whole prop 8 thing last year when we finally got fed up with the church doing things we didn't agree with. So, after doing some research about questions I had about the church but ignored for years I came to the conclusion that the church was not true as I had always been told.
I mentioned this to my sister whom I am very close to and she thought a bit about it and talked to another sister who mentioned that she had been doing the same thing and had come to the same concluson. So, all three of us no longer believed, but how do we tell our parents?
We decided we would each write a letter to our parents telling them of our journey of discovery and mail them all together. I know that seems harsh, but we decided it was like ripping off a band-aid, you just gotta do it quickly and get it over with, right?
Luckily they did not die of a heart attack right there on the spot. They did, however, write each of us a letter telling us why we are wrong and how sad they are. Then they basically said that we would never speak of this again and it hasn't been brought up ever since.
Of course that was just a few months ago. I'm not sure what we'll do when baptisms and weddings come around for other family members. I'm sure it will be awkward!
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