The "Big Happy Mormon Family" is soooo fake.

My experience with growing up in a big Mormon family is that being in a "big happy Mormon family" causes too much emotional stress. 

In my experience, fighting, crying, and not getting enough emotional support was normal. Pressure to appear as a big happy family all the time is the biggest stress. The amount of suppression it takes to never show negativity is insane. It's unhealthy to expect a big family to be happy all the time like that, but it is unfortunately an expectation in a cult like Mormonism.

I had to take care of the younger kids because young children need so much care and attention, but I was doing this at my own cost because I was still a child who needed time and attention too. 

Children deserve to be raised by adults who have the time and resources to care for them and support them through ALL emotions, not just happiness.

Everyone deserves to be able to express negative emotions and not be forced to appear happy all the time. 

Rename BYU. Brigham Young was a murderous white supremacist.

The Mormon prophet Brigham Young was a murderous white supremacist.

The Mormon University BYU is named after Brigham Young.

He was a white supremacist.

He taught that black people were inferior to white people and that interracial couples deserve "death on the spot".

It's disgusting that they haven't renamed that school. 

Mormon church says "pay up, or you won't see your family in heaven"

Here's an example of how the Mormon church uses the idea of forever families to manipulate their members.

The Mormon church teaches that to be a forever family you have to be sealed in the temple.

To be ~*woRtHy*~ of the temple you have to pass a worthiness interview.

When I was growing up, the only question in the worthiness interview that had a follow up meeting was the one about paying them money. It's "Tithing Settlement" in the cult jargon.

If you DON'T pay them money, YOU CAN'T BE WITH YOUR FAMILY FOREVER.

It's a cult.

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