S5 Ep11: The Gloves Came Off | Rachel
Something Was Wrong
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🗓️ 13 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 1:01.0 | Things began to get really strained with my father and me, but again, I think I was so good at compartmentalizing that it'd be like, |
| 1:10.1 | well, you know, it's the next day and we're going to go to the |
| 1:12.3 | beach and surf and everything's great and we're going to have fun. And then, you know, you would kind of |
| 1:16.4 | just put it to the side until the next thing happened. And it was like, you never really dealt with it. |
| 1:21.6 | And so when the next time it did happen, it was like tenfold because you're remembering all the |
| 1:25.5 | other times that it happened. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.1 | Do you feel like the church there was less culty then? |
| 1:38.5 | It sounds like the church there was actually more of like a regular church. |
| 1:41.4 | And do you think that's why your dad's paranoia was maybe worse? |
| 1:42.2 | Definitely. |
| 1:45.6 | I think it was many things. I think my dad wanted to be accepted. I think he didn't want them to find out what was going on. I think part of the culty |
| 1:51.8 | behavior in our church came from my parents' beliefs and part of it came from their need to control |
| 1:56.4 | things. It wasn't necessarily like a dogma that they lived by. It was just something that came out that they couldn't control. Or, I mean, they could control if they wanted to. But, like, they were so caught up in themselves. So they couldn't even see that they were acting out of that. Not that I'm ever excusing them. |
| 2:15.1 | No, no. I hear what you're saying, though. It's just, it this is some part of my issue growing up is that I've always been so good at understanding |
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