Minisode 49: I Am Capable and Free

Not So Molly Mormon

Not So Molly Mormon Podcast

Society & Culture

4.6 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In the Mormon church, women are taught that their divine role is to be a wife and mother.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not So Molloy Mormon podcast Minisodes.
0:09.6	Today I have a letter from Lindsay.
0:13.4	She writes,
0:14.9	Hi, lovelies.
0:16.9	I feel like a creepy 60-year-old man saying that, but I'm sticking with it.
0:21.5	I don't think it's creepy. I like it.
0:24.5	I am so grateful that I found your podcast. I've struggled with my feelings about the church for years.
0:30.8	Honestly, I've struggled with it my entire life. It never resonated with me, and I never had a burning in the bosom. But I tried to conform.
0:41.2	I'm just beginning to confront my suppressed feelings. Your podcast has been an escape and a comfort.
0:47.6	I have so many stories and experiences that I could share and want to share with you, but I'll
0:52.5	stick to one in this message.
0:55.5	If it wasn't clear, I was born into the church. From a young age, I was told that I would become a wife and a mother.
1:03.0	I grasped onto that. I brushed off aspirations and dreams because I knew that I needed to be a wife and a mother.
1:12.2	I attended university after graduating high school.
1:15.9	During that time, I met my now husband.
1:18.7	He was Mormon as well.
1:20.3	We dated for a year before getting married.
1:22.7	I was 19.
1:24.9	We moved to Rexburg, Idaho to attend BYU, Idaho.
1:28.3	I didn't attend the first semester that we lived there, but my husband did.
1:32.3	He encouraged me to enroll and I did for a semester, but ultimately decided that I didn't want to waste money on classes because I knew that I'd be a mother and not need a degree.
1:42.3	Flash forward, we've been married almost four
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