1756: Rebuilding Life as a Mormon Widow - Janae Thompson Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of her interview, Janae Thompson shares her journey as a young widow navigating the Mormon doctrine of eternal families and the challenges of dating and remarriage. She discusses the disparities in church policies and teachings that caused her to question her faith and ultimately led her down the rabbit hole of learning about the history of Mormonism. Janae talks candidly about exploring her sexuality and finding new rituals and practices to connect and uplift her after leaving the church. Her story is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the possibilities for happiness and health after leaving a religious institution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:03.7 | John DeLin. It is March 28, 2023 and we are going to be answering in this part this episode |
| 0:10.7 | of Mormon Stories podcast. What do you do when you are a Mormon widow when your husband passes |
| 0:17.2 | away unexpectedly when you have four young children, sons in this case, how do you rebuild |
| 0:23.6 | a life when kind of Mormonism and kind of orthodox conservative Mormonism is pretty much |
| 0:29.4 | all you've known your whole life. And when you've had one partner, so to speak, in your whole |
| 0:34.7 | life, I am joined, thrilled to be joined by my partner in truth and righteousness, Margie, Hey Margie. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey. Welcome back. And we're in part two of our interview with Janay Thompson. Hey Janay. |
| 0:48.3 | Hi. We survived your part one and lunch. Yes. We did. And here we are back again, ready to go. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm like, you want to do this another day? And she's like, no, we're finishing this up. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm here. Let's get it done. So we just finished three hours and 15 minutes or so with Janay in part |
| 1:04.8 | one, Janay and her late husband were the creators of a super popular YouTube channel called The King |
| 1:13.6 | of Random or TKOR. And last episode was just about her Mormon childhood, her eventually gaining a |
| 1:22.2 | testimony in the church as an early adult. And kind of what it was like to go to BYU and date |
| 1:28.0 | and leave BYU without a husband. But eventually she talked about meeting Grant, the wonderful |
| 1:33.4 | life they were able together with four kids. And their amazing YouTube channel, The King of Random, |
| 1:38.3 | and we ended last episode with Grant dying from a paraliding accident, motorized paraliding in St. |
| 1:47.8 | George. Yep. And we ended by just talking about grief and her children and how she processed |
| 1:55.6 | that death. And what we're in store for now is what does, let's just say a Mormon woman in her |
| 2:03.4 | 30s who has four young kids and just lost her husband. How do you regroup? And what are the complexities |
| 2:12.2 | of rebuilding a life in that scenario? And there'll be some faith journey stuff. There'll be some |
| 2:20.3 | sexuality stuff, some being a single person or widow in the Mormon church stuff. And what else? |
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