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"I feel like a lot of my life was quite literally stolen from me."  Ex-Mormons are opening up about why they left the church ...

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00:00Soaking is when you have a man who just sticks it in and essentially lets it soak.

00:10We were raised as orthodox Mormons, married in 1921 as virgins.

00:14I'm Spartacus and you're watching Ex-Mormon TikTok.

00:23And the idea behind it is that if it's just in, but not moving back and forth, or there's

00:29no movement, it's not a sin.

00:32We knew little to nothing about doing it.

00:35I got dumped by a guy who told me that his patriarchal blessing says he would marry a

00:41girl who skis, and I was a snowboarder.

00:45I was given two other gems of advice, never say no to your husband, and only slutty and

00:50worldly women actually like it.

01:10Every person who has reached a certain level of the Mormon church, we use the word endowed,

01:15or have reached a certain level of worthiness, has to wear the Mormon garment, which is the

01:21official term for Mormon magic underwear.

01:24The only time I took my garments off was to shower, to swim, to have sex, and occasionally

01:31to exercise.

01:32Yeah, so I got married in this.

01:36The garments are supposedly a protection from Satan.

01:40I also had to chant in a circle, yeah, covering my face, oh yeah, don't forget.

01:45As Mormons, you heavily focus on the Book of Mormon because we believe that it's the

02:03most corrected, translated book of scripture that there is.

02:24The church employs a lot of thought control and mental and emotional manipulation throughout

02:28all of its teachings.

02:29An example of this would be the insidious teaching of families can be together forever.

02:34On the surface, this seems like a really beautiful teaching about eternal families, until you

02:39realize that it's actually very conditional on the basis of doing everything exactly the

02:43way the Mormon church wants you to do it.

02:56So there's a thing in the Mormon church that's called Trek, which is where all the Mormon

03:01teenagers dress up as pioneers and pull hand carts to remember the ancestors that traveled

03:10to Utah.

03:11So Utah was founded by the Mormons, the majority of people who live in Utah are Mormons.

03:17As some of you may know, the Beehive House is where Brigham Young housed all of his many

03:24wives, 55 to be exact.

03:29People are leaving the Mormon church in droves, many because of church history related issues

03:34such as anachronisms in the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith being a sexual predator, polygamy,

03:40and many more.

03:41I realized a lot of things that were said in doctrines that I didn't know about like

03:45back in the 1900s that were so racist, so wrong, so sexist.

03:51I spiraled down a rabbit hole of plethora of information where the literality of what

03:57I was taught about the church was not meshing.

04:02So I went through a very long and painful process of deconstructing my faith.

04:17Growing up in the Mormon church, I was taught that this coffee, it's not that it was evil.

04:25So many of my life choices were made for me because I was part of the LDS church.

04:30I feel like a lot of my life was quite literally stolen from me.

04:33I guess I'm a sinner drinking Satan's juice, but at least it's really good.

04:40There's so much grieving that comes from leaving the Mormon church.

04:43You lose your community.

04:45You lose a lot of your friendships.

04:47I'm just so thankful for the community that I found here on TikTok that is just understanding

04:53of what I'm going through.

05:00I'm just so thankful for the community that I found here on TikTok that is just understanding

05:02of what I'm going through.

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