Mormon wives

I'm just on the last episode

Yes me, in fact I have binged and finished season 2, loved it.

Anyone watching season 2?

Oh and actually, her siblings run the pre school one of my DC goes to and their enrichment activities are second to none! They are absolutely fantastic with the children and they go BIG with celebrating Easter/halloween/christmas/moving up a year etc etc - the kids definitely feel very special

Growing up my best friend was from a Mormon family. They were the sweetest kindest people ever and welcomed me into their home in a way I have never experienced before or since.

occasionally I went to church things with her and once went on a church camp with her and her sisters which was a bit weird in parts but fine, just different to what I was used to in a catholic family. But no different to any of my friends with more strictly religious families, just a different flavour.

They did have access to an awful lot of American shops/sweets etc (most of the members were American and lived on a nearby USA air base) and that definitely made up for any extra prayers at the dinner table 😂😂

we’ve both got kids now and life got in the way and she moved quite far, but when we occasionally meet up she still brings me a root beer 🤎

Joining as just started this series 😱😅

Follow some ex Mormons on YouTube. Current Mormons will be presenting a certain image.

I think the soda thing really depends on the cultural area of Mormonism. I know some people take the “hot drink” thing to be a metaphor for caffeine so I have inlaw Mormons who view themselves as fairly strict but will have hot fruit tea but view it okay as it’s not caffeinated whereas others will drink caffeinated soda but view it as okay because it’s not hot!

Anyway my takeaway from SLMW was that dentists in Utah are making bank 💰

I think it was cola that was in the same category as tea and coffee which are also frowned on...but its like many beliefs of churches...there are things that are frowned on but tolerated and things that are complete no nos

I have one female Mormon acquaintance. She is about the sweetest, kindest, least judgmental woman you could meet.

Haven't watched the show, but grew up with a lot of Mormons (international school kid).

They have some odd views, and the Mormon church has a weird and pretty racist history. But in my experience they are honestly the nicest people. Very kind and sweet. Miss my Mormon friends! Most of them live in Utah now and have many, many children 😅

The soda thing is wild to me. We know lots of Mormons and soda was a huge no no but there was a "clarification" in 2012 that soda was fine and now it's a huge thing?!

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives show is absolutely not about strict Mormons though, quite the opposite in fact!

I just started watching this yesterday. I'm up to episode 5. I started watching because Ben & Ronnie are recapping it on crappens and I wanted to have an idea of who they were talking about. I'm hooked. Whitney is a real piece of work & Taylor is crazy if she believes that guy is sober. They all seem really familiar to me. I'm sure I've seen them all before in something (Not momtok ).

Come on, you can't be that naive?
All the young students who have been expelled would tell you otherwise.

I wouldn’t take a lot of notice of a so called reality show.🙄

So they don't have rigid gender roles or are homophobic?

There is no 'typical' Mormon, just like there is no typical Christian. I know a huge amount of Mormans, off shoot of my maternal family. The ones that left the church were never shunned, the ones from south africa left there as the racism was phenomenal. My nephews ex wife re married again, within the Morman church, only to be left high and dry at 6 months pregnant, as the guy couldn't deal with repressing his homosexuality. Look it up, there was a huge drive to marry homosexual children off, in doing so, hopefully, they would become straight. Ruining their lives, their partners lives, who were often tricked into this and the lives of their children.
But saying that, overall, the majority are lovely, everyday people, who really care about others.

I realize not all Mormons live in SLC, just that the Mormons I know are on the more liberal side, and maybe in Utah they tend to be more conservative. (In general. Obviously there will be those that are more conservative or liberal everywhere.)

Under the banner of heaven, Christianity, in their different faiths, have committed the most atrocious acts against human beings.

Abusers today, don't come in religious faith packages. You can find them in every country, household or belief system.

We have a Mormon church down the end of the road. The week after we moved into our house, two Morgan lads knocked on the door and welcomed us to the community. Nothing else. Just said they were from the church.

A couple of weeks later we were stripping walls and pulling up carpets, with the front door wide open. They were walking by, asked us how we were getting on and if we wanted a hand… Nicer than my own family and friends 😂. I can see why people would join with the sense of community.

I would never want to be a Mormon even if it didn't contradict many of my personal beliefs and values.

It's not inherently abusive, and I'm sure that most Mormons are perfectly nice people, but the culture definitely makes it easy for abusers, and there is an attitude of covering up to protect the church from being cast in a bad light.

Under the banner of heaven is based on a true story. Tara Westover 's book "Educated" also shows clearly how the religion can enable abusers.

The same could be said of the Catholic church too though (although perhaps naively I think they are trying to change this).

Hard agree! Bloody loooved that show.
Though I imagine it was v much story for drama’s sake rather than a true view of current Mormonism. Though the ‘compound’ was based on a true polygamist off-shot.

I am not defending them either, just stating a fact.

I live right near a main mormon temple in Lancashire. There are always lots of young Mormons in our little market town who have come to live here from all over the world whilst, I'm guessing, they are undergoing some sort of training? They are always extremely smartly dressed and very polite. I walked past a group of them yesterday and they all politely moved out of the way and smiled at me. Whereas, just a few minutes before I'd walked past a group of "non mormon" youths, who were loudly swearing, spitting on the floor and generally being very intimidating. I know who I'd rather walk past! I also enjoyed watching the series "Big Love" and "Sister Wives" but I was under the impression polygamy was frowned upon these days by the main mormon church and it was only these offshoot "rebel" communities where it still goes on?