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9. I stopped going to Mass and Communion at 15 years old

while still in catholic school. My issues with them even back then, especially as an ONLY CHILD by choice, was over BC, abortion, and divorce. Besides finding all these "pro-life" issues INSULTING as a young woman in a family of 3, my divorced and re-married Aunt was not an "adultress" and my cousin was not a bastard.

As the years went by, my alientation only got worse. When I got married, I did want to be "open" to as many children as "god" wanted. The final straw for me was my ectopic pregnancy. A dead embryo was more than my life, and the right of my 3 year old to have a mother, to them. They almost killed me because of the blind faith.

Yes, I had many, many reasons to leave, and actually hate, them.