And were you BIC or a convert? I think it will be very interesting to read the responses to this!

I was 52 and a convert of 8 years....

BIC and left at age 15

Went inactive at 45. Resigned at 50.

Oh, and I was a convert, baptized at 17.



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Greyfort, what made you resign after 5 years?

I was born to non-endowed jack-mormonish parents. I moved to the morridor in my youth and tried to fit in, i.e. tried to be a Mormon. I was married in the temple, got divorced and repeated the same mistake. All the while, giving a great try, but never really submitting to the BS which I knew deep down was wrong. I have now totally lost any belief or desire for Mormonism.

When did that happen? It happened over years. I suppose I lost faith in it completely at age 55 or so.

Too bad it takes so long to learn the truth. I applaud you for your convictions!

Not young enough. Wish I had never heard of the darn thing.

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BIC was ex'd at 27, went back at 36. Resigned for good at 57.

Mia, do you mind if I ask what made you go back at 36?

Long story. I had remarried, had 2 small kids, he had one. We thought we should raise our kids with a religion. He joined the church, and we raised kids in the church.

If this web site had existed at the time, we would have been lutheran instead.

My husband, and 2 kids have all resigned together. His son is still very TBM.

I tried to quit at age twelve and got persecuted for it. Skipped some meetings and was definitely done at fourteen. More persecution. I tried to go back at eighteen, but it seemed like all the Mormons were Stepford wives. Fed up, I swore it off for good.

I lost my whole family of nine, except for one intelligent brother. He and I officially resinged together some years ago.

BIC = Bound In Chains.

Hormonal conversion at age 24, married in the DC temple at age 25, stuck it out for about 19 years, trying to believe, not really making it.

Got the internet (cue scary music) at 43, found RfM. Declared my disbelief at 46, sent in my resignation at age 47. It took them a year and a half to process it, got my letter from Greg Dodge at age 48. Also got divorced that year.

I'm now 58, and have been on RfM for 15 years.

Back and forth as a teen. Went on a mission, married and stayed in until I had been married 5 years and then started my doubting again and completed it into full blown unbelief 5 years later but kept going for another 5 before never going back again.

BIC, left the church at age 27

I had a jackmormon mother who grew weed with my dad in the basement. But lds all the way back to the first few that started the church on my moms side. My mom was bic.

The church was the only consistent thing growing up in foster care after the age of 10. I went to church since I was 6 and walked there myself every Sunday until I was 16 and took a break until I was 18 and married with my first daughter. Went through the Temple in 05, sealed to hubby that didn't really believe in 08. Asked him to read more this past year and he found many disturbing things that I looked up for myself and whala here I am!

so I was in the church for 22 years

When I was growing up I found out Satan was not real either.
I hadn't actually met him in the War In Heaven -- only heard about him.

Pay Lay Alol

BIC, left for good at 37.

I had tried leave many times before, and proud to say that I was inactive for many, many years.

I pretty much knew it was bullchip from the time I was a kid. I knew about evolution, and thought the stories were too fantastical. I remember being embarrassed as hell talking about the Morg on my mission. I was told it was because I was ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, I realize that I was ashamed of the gospel and any right minded person should be.
I played along because I had people in my life who believed and "needed" me there with them. Stupid me.

Wife:

BIC, left for good at about 40.

I taught RS up until the day before I gave the Bishop my resignation letter. However, I was probably more of a New Order Mormon for at least 10 years before that.

28 when I knew it was bogus and stopped practicing, 34 when I officially resigned. Never looked back.

Convert at age 18, resigned at 37. I went inactive about 6 months after joining due to a kind of culture shock, but unfortunately reactivated about 6 months later and was completely active until about a week before my resignation this past January.

social mormon growing up, didn't go on mission, nor endowments.

enjoyed mormons as friends but I never had a testimony.

At 50 I left having found out the Mormon church is a lie.

Resigned at 51. Living quietly in PNW among very few members.

I like to check online to see how the recovery is going for others.

It's often very enjoyable, the humor is awesome among this group.

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At 18, again at 21, again at 30 and for good at 39.

BIC....quit attending when I was about 19 (at Ricks)

BIC, left at 25, resigned at 26.

Had doubts my whole life. When I was 19 I did not go on a mission because I did not feel comfortable telling people to believe in something I didn't really believe in.

However, it was not until I was 24 that I knew 100% it was not true.

The best "anti-mormon" things you can read are the talks of the leaders of the church from Joseph Smith to the present day. Sure, not all of it is crap. There are some good things here and there. However the good things you find, are pretty easy to find without the lds church. I don't need a church to tell me to be honest for example. There are many other things that are very negative, and many things that are flat out racist and hateful. Also speaking of honesty, when I no longer believed the church was an honest organization, that was it. I could be a little wishy washy on the doctrine if I believed the church was a force of good. When you learn the church may do some good things here or there, but overall it is not a force of good, you know you have to leave.

26, just pretty recently left. Was baptized right as I turned 18.

Convert at 20, inactive by 22, resigned when I was 36.

My ex and I took the kids to see fireworks together tonight. On the way home asked him if he was ever going to resign. He got really mad at me. So he was BIC, inactive at age 30, and at age 49 won't resign. If he did try to go back, he'd just get exed anyway. I imagine there are a lot like him on the church membership records.