Haven't communicated with any of my mother's or father's family in over a decade. They live religious lives and don't want to associate with a "devil worshiper," and I will not put up with anyone who lives as a delusional fundamentalist.

My family and personal relationships were greatly affected by religious differences. I am living happily without those people in my life, so I'm not sure I need to talk too much about it now. Too much time has passed to want to bridge those gaps now.

BUT, I remember at the time, it would have been nice to be able to express my sadness and have some validation reflected back to me from like-minded folks about the unfairness and insecure meanness of those people who chose to cut me out of the family and friendships, simply because I have a different view of religion than they did.

A support group sounds nice. It might be therapeutic for many of us. Good idea!

there is a religion and spirituality category and a family & parenting category. one can choose one or post the same thing in both.

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No you are not - you might try a search by the religion in question though? We have some ex-everything I'm sure. And that is likely where they discuss it.

I think HR frowns on close personnel relationships.