Unregistered

Hi. Thank you so much for sharing this. I too am a former “church kid”. I left my parents house when I was 18 as soon as I got a car. I literally left with a handful of clothes wrapped in a blanket. Fortunately my parents bought me a cheap car because I wasn’t allowed to have a job because it would involve being around members of the opposite sex unsupervised and/or possibly missing church. I find it very difficult to talk to other people about it since the name Local Church is so vague, people would ask me what denomination I was and I would have no idea what to say. I am 34 now and just beginning to process how it has affected me. You are not alone in your experience