Reply #11: After my surgery I needed supportive care, more than [View All]

In-Home Supportive Services could give. If I hadn't rekindled the relationship, I would have starved in my apartment. :( I'm still not sure how to handle things.

I will probably have to move away from this town if/when I get healthy enough to do so. It's a small town and people here have known me since birth. They think they still know me. Unfortunately, I get drawn into "church talk" quite often and I have to tell them I don't believe anymore. At that point, I become either an enemy or a target for re-proselytization. I am no longer a person. I've tried to maintain friendships with fundies and have discovered it's impossible. They can't leave me alone. They just have to proselytize. Ladyhawk don't play that.

Unfortunately, my mother compounds the problem by giving my number and e-mail address to people I don't want to talk to (fundies). She keeps trying subtle things to win me back to the fold--but I'm not a fucking sheep.

I need to get involved with some folks that aren't 1) religious and 2) rigid. This town is an intellectual desert.