💛 The people in your life
Relationships
Your spouse, your children, your parents, your ward. How to tell them, and how to stay close.
Ask people years later what the hardest part of their faith crisis was, and almost nobody says the history. They say the people: the spouse who was blindsided, the mother who cried, the children caught between two parents, the ward that went quiet. Relationships are where a faith crisis does its damage, and they are where the most can be saved. These guides are about the conversations, in roughly the order most people need them, plus a library of scripts and letters you can adapt.
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Leaving the LDS Church as a Young Adult in the U.K. – Douglas Stilgoe | Ep. 1345
330: Raising Children in a Mixed-Faith Mormon Home
When Your Sister Leaves the Mormon Church – Meggan & Julie O’Neal | Ep. 2144
How We Almost Ruined Our Mixed-Faith Marriage | Ep. 1799
650-652: One Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Mormon Transition
Resources for this path
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When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life
Jon Ogden
Short, kind, and focused on keeping relationships whole. Jon was a guest on Mormon Transitions.
Psychology of beliefMarriage and mixed-faithParents and family
Marriage on a Tightrope
Allan and Kattie Mount
A believing wife and a non-believing husband recording their mixed-faith marriage in real time, for years. They were guests on episodes 40 to 42.
How to Fortify Your Mormon Mixed-Faith Relationship (webinar)
Natasha Helfer with John Dehlin
Six hours on understanding a faith transition's effect on a relationship, marital strategies, and parenting in a mixed-faith home.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman and Nan Silver
The research-based basics of a marriage that lasts. Faith differences are survivable when these are in place.
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
The Imago approach to couples. Recommended by Natasha throughout the marriage episodes.
Where Should We Begin?
Esther Perel
Real couples in real sessions with the best-known couples therapist alive. You will hear your own marriage.
Parenting Beyond Belief
Dale McGowan (editor)
Raising ethical, curious children without religion, from people who have done it.
The Conscious Parent
Shefali Tsabary
Parenting from presence rather than control. Margi's most-recommended parenting book.
Uplift Kids
Uplift Kids
A values-and-wisdom curriculum for families that want something like family home evening without the doctrine. Built by nuanced and former Latter-day Saints.
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