My cognitive dissonance got louder than my survival instinct

By the time I’m done writing about The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church I’ll have accidentally written my own disjointed, ADHD-as-hell book on the topic.

Today, I want to talk about one line: “We’re not hurting because we didn’t follow the rules. We’re hurting because we did follow the rules.”

Author

Sarah McCammon

is quoting her ex-husband, in a post-divorce conversation. They’d waited to have sex until they got married. But that hadn’t guaranteed them happiness. I can relate.