Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

agricola wrote:yes.
Kindly get over it, because it is truly debilitating and a terrible way to live.
At least you RECOGNIZE why! That's the first step.

Working on it.

Alternate title - "One strike and you're out" The coC has severely warped the way I handle relationships. For the longest time, I've gone in circles with my significant other, because any time he is upset or irritated about something, I interpret it as him being upset or irritated at me. T...

I'm kinda jealous. All of these would still send the coC congregations around here (maybe with the exception of the bathing suits, but that's still iffy) into a fit.

you can delete that. you can block the woman. you can set your privacy so that only 'friends' can see your posts (and I assume she is not a friend). If she is a friend of your mother's, she can see and comment on your post - but it will show up on your mother's page after all, rather than yours. Ba...

Has anyone else dealt with coC folks "gently" doling out so-called corrections, in public? The reason I ask is, my mom's birthday was awhile back, and on her Facebook I posted a meme-type photo of a dog with a birthday hat and the words "OMG IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY." Cue a coC woman c...

Your story really hit home for me. I'm also 27, just finished the divorce process, and have been working through the emotional, spiritual and psychological fallout that came with it. I stumbled onto this board the same way you did. While my husband only turned physically abusive in the last few mont...

IN the coc - we celebrated all the holidays, but absolutely NONE of them was 'religious'. Not a single holiday showed up at church. Christmas came closest to getting its nose in the door. Once in a while in December, if the song leader was very very daring, we just MIGHT sing Hark the Herald Angels...

He arose a victor from the dark do-main And he lives forever with his saints to reign was changed to: And he lives for-ever, death he over-came. That's a new one to me, and I grew up with a dad for a song leader. I do remember a stir being raised about Night, with Ebon Pinion. This verse: When Chri...