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My dad was a pastor. Only when I got to secondary school did I realise that's unusual. And about that age I started to be told to act this way, not that way etc.

I didn't do much of the normal teenage stuff because it wasn't "right". By 18 dad had introduced me to the man who became my husband I really didn't have much say in it.

Now 30 years later I've burst from the bubble I've lived in and. I'm so confused. I feel like I need to be a teenager again but I'm 45 so that can't happen.

And then there's all this conflict with past stuff. I've started yoga classes which I'm loving but my ex-husband repeats the doctrine of the church that it isn't compatible with being a Christian.

Just one of the conflicts I'm trying to consider currently.
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Yoga classes aren't compatible with being a Christian? Seriously?? Not to be rude, but were you raised in a cult? I'd ignore him, since he's now the ex, although you probably have to "co-parent" with him. That doesn't mean he rules your life.
OldBrit · 61-69, M
@VeronicaJane the argument is already used on here. I'll leave it there. It has a spiritual dimension in its practice and that's contradictory some say with Christianity.