Amanda
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I was a very compliant wife.
I've had lots of children.
I've done all the right things.
I wasn't the standard of beauty, I guess you could say.
And so he would say things to me like, well, you're cute.
And I would be like, but I want to be beautiful.
Well, you're not beautiful.
Morning.
How are you, John?
I'm great.
I'm super excited to be speaking with you today.
So my husband and I have been married for 27 years.
We both were in the same high demand religion, and we have both eventually left it.
I left it about 12 years ago.
He's kind of gone back and forth, but he's completely out now.
But I just have, I'm realizing I have lots of resentment around how he treated me while we were in the religion and then since.
And now I'm older and I'm realizing he also has all his own trauma around that.
But I don't quite know how to forgive where we've been and move forward past how I'm feeling right now.
So when we were in the religion, I was very, I don't know how to describe it.