1117: Liz Layton - Millennial Post-Mormon, Former Utah Jazz Dancer, Coping with the Suicide of Loved Ones Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this Mormon Stories Podcast episode we interview Liz Layton. Liz has experienced much accomplishment and tragedy in her life as a millennial post-Mormon. This includes becoming a professional dancer for the Utah Jazz, but also includes the loss of her orthodox Mormon faith, two divorces, and the death of two of her siblings due to suicide.
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| 0:48.8 | It's okay see leave the temple what do you say to Joe? I'm mostly I'm gonna be honest mostly I |
| 0:54.4 | laughed. I'm like that was weird. My dad and that outfit was hilarious. It was it was fine. I didn't feel |
| 1:02.9 | any I felt fine and I again I had kind of reconciled in my mind that I would move forward to do this for Joe. |
| 1:11.5 | Okay so it was fine. Yeah and lots of people do that they're just like oh I don't know if I totally |
| 1:15.9 | believe it all but I love my spouse and I want to have a family so they go with it. So what happened? |
| 1:21.5 | So then we got married and things got really they got real and again I'm a very authentic person and in |
| 1:30.8 | those first few months of my marriage I was like I felt that I had really made the wrong decision. |
| 1:38.2 | One in marrying so young but two in marrying in the temple. Is that because marriage was harder than |
| 1:43.1 | you thought? Did you not feel prepared for marriage? Oh definitely definitely I mean |
| 1:49.9 | but more than that it was the faith crisis. What was going through my mind was that I had married |
| 1:56.1 | someone who was truly believing clear on how they felt and clear on the direction they wanted to |
| 2:00.3 | head in life and I felt very unclear and so I felt pressure to figure it out but also I felt |
| 2:08.0 | a lot of fear and a lot of guilt that I you know was gonna pull a 180 on Joe even though he had |
| 2:16.7 | known that I had had doubts he married me I married him in the temple so I think he had this |
| 2:22.9 | expectation that I would be the Mormon wife that I said I was gonna be and then in those first |
| 2:28.7 | few months you know I was wearing garments we're going to church we're doing temple work and I'm like |
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