Poh Ling Yeow

So it was so funny because when we were dating, I actually talk about this sometimes, we were like watching David Attenborough docos because it's like, whoa, Darwinian theory.

Yeah.

They were our date nights.

We used to like pour over those, but I was actually dating someone at the time.

So we started off as friends and we were kind of confidants in the church because there's not many people that are really interested in, we didn't certainly had no friends that were doing that.

And we just found such solace in each other, being able to speak so freely in the way that we were questioning all the doctrines and all these holes that we were finding in the way that the church operated.

Yeah, that's actually how we became really close friends.

And then eventually we built up the courage to leave the church together.

Yeah, you know, you're right.

It was very, it was like two, it was like two lots of bad news for the parents.

No, for sure.

It was really, yeah, it was really hard for me because there was still so much cultural pull in that regard.

Like disobeying your parents is just so ingrained.

Like, you know, you just don't do that.

Because we were about to get married and you have to get married in the temple when you're a church member.

And so there's two ceremonies.

There's like a civil ceremony and then there's one that you perform in the temple.

We couldn't go in that direction knowing that we were actually wanting to leave.

Like it was just such a wrong thing to do in our minds.

So we chose the wedding to reveal to our parents that we were leaving the church.