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Barely Surviving a Painful Life As a Mormon TRAD WIFE
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CW: DV & suicide attempt. After being spiritually manipulated to marry a stranger, Jennie did whatever she could to be the woman her new husband wanted. Fitting herself into a tight, Mormon, Trad wife box, if began to suffocate her. One year in she almost had an out, as her husband was also unhappy and asked for a divorce. However, the high leaders in the church said no, and threatened their eternal salvation if they were to even consider breaking their temple covenants. What she would uncover 20 years later would leave her hanging on by a thread.
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Chapter Marks
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:55 Previous episode recap
00:03:32 Jennie's traumatic Mormon temple ceremony experience
00:13:27 Endowment session/temple marriage
00:19:37 Jennie's difficult wedding night
00:26:48 Struggling to be perfect for her stranger husband
00:35:11 Jennie abandoning her self worth and placing it on her achievements
00:39:52 The invisible shock collar of Mormonism & high generational expectations
00:42:09 **We are not against someone CHOOSING to be a trad wife**
00:44:24 Jake takes Jennie to a meeting with a high authority to drop a HUGE bomb
00:52:27 Jennie found out her husband had a double life
00:57:26 Jennie turned to the church for help & l