Hi, I'm Shawn
I was a mormon from birth until shortly after returning from my two-year mission in 1993.
Hermosa Beach, California
About me
I was born in the covenant at LDS Hospital as a fifth generation mormon on both sides.
On the Mormon Spectrum
# Why I left More stories of 'Why I left' the Mormon church
I left to make a better life for myself and my family free of the church's lies and manipulation. It is an unhealthy cult. Church culture and toxicity destroyed my family of birth. Of four boys in our family, I'm the youngest and effectively sole survivor. The two oldest brothers died young of self-inflicted causes that I attribute to the toxicity of church culture. Next to marrying a girl I met at BYU--the only positive I took from that experience--leaving the church was the best and most significant decision I've made in my life.