What was the response from your ward when you left?
I didn't make an announcement of it except to those I was close with, and they kept being my friends and welcoming me to hang out with them. My bishop asked if I wanted to have my records removed (which I didn't at that time but did a few months later) and said that if I could get closer to Christ somewhere else, I should go somewhere else.
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Near radio silence
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I was mostly ignored. The two bishops I talked to were not helpful and only one other person ever asked me why I stopped going.
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