1279: Loving and Accepting a Transgender Spouse - Steph, Katie, and Jennifer Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Did you ever struggle with your identity as a Mormon? Did you ever feel like who you were inside didn't fit the Mormon mold?
Have you ever been estranged from family over religious differences? Are you suffering with the idea that reconciliation will never happen?
Join us now for this epic and inspiring Mormon Stories Podcast episode which covers so many essential topics including:
- Faith, family, commitment.
- Divorce. Estrangement.
- Excommunication and re-baptism.
- Faith crisis issues.
- Family reconciliation after 17 years of estrangement.
These are thoughtful, wise, and inspiring humans - and you will not regret time spent on this episode. It will restore your faith that relationships can be reconciled after estrangement from a faith crisis.
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| 0:40.6 | So Jennifer, you talked about as soon as you got married, these overwhelming, like being |
| 0:47.1 | inundated with the feminine, so close to you and then also just feelings of jealousy |
| 0:53.4 | and envy, right? |
| 0:56.5 | And I'm just wondering stuff, if you experience any of those similar things? |
| 1:02.0 | Of course. |
| 1:04.1 | So much of what Jen said is paralleled in my own experience and there was actually a |
| 1:07.8 | point Katie and I had been married for several years now and I was really starting to suspect |
| 1:14.4 | that this experience that I was having internally was bigger than I thought it was and I reached |
| 1:20.4 | out to Jen, a email there and I said, hey, look, I'm just trying to be a little more open-minded |
| 1:25.2 | and understand things from different perspectives. |
| 1:27.2 | I'm wondering if you have a journal of when you were going through like this crisis and approaching |
| 1:33.2 | transitioning and I said, if you have something like that, it'd be really interested to |
| 1:37.1 | read it just so that I can understand your perspective a little more and she jumped at the |
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