Hello there! I am an exMormon. In other words, I am a former member of the Mormon church who, like many others (at least a quarter of a million), has discovered - through honest research from respected, unbiased sources (something the Mormon church warns against) - what Mormonism has been claiming since its invention in 1830 are falsehoods.

For those of us who believed wholeheartedly, such a discovery produces indescribable personal turmoil because of the degree of control and demand the Mormon church exerts over its followers. So much so that many of us have to seek professional help in order to overcome the desolation of learning the "reality" the church fabricated for us has never been real.

Answers to questions like "how to raise my children now that I've left Mormonism?", or "what are good sources of ethics I can replace the racist, misogynist and homophobic ones the Mormon church teaches?" or "I am a minor, how do I tell my parents I don't believe in the Joseph Smith was actually a prophet?" were hard to find as leaving Mormonism usually also means losing friends and straining family relationships. But then, in 2009 someone known in Reddit as Measure76 created the exmormon forum as a place "to share news, commentary and comedy about the Mormon church." In time the forum became a most important source of the support and advice exMormons so much need from each other.

I learned about the exmormon subreddit in 2014 during my several year long hearbreak regarding my once beloved church. I quickly registered (my username is ReasonFighter, say hi if you see me there!). I can't express how eye-opening, how healing it was to discover I hadn't misinterpreted things in my research, and that I wasn't alone in my grief. It is impossible to measure how much advice, how much information, how much comfort I've received from so many fellow exMormons going through situations so similar to my own.

Since then I remain an active participant in the forum, sharing what I've learned, encouraging others and just being the source of assurance so many others were for me back then.