It is sad to see how your parents chose a relationship with an imaginary being over one with a real, breathing human in need of understanding and compassion, not indoctrination.

Glad to see you got something positive out of those visits and that you accept your life in better terms than your parents did.

It sounds like they had really conservative views. 🙂 I can see how that might be hard on you.

You pulled the silver lining out of that experience.

Interesting. I'm happy for you but I'm not sure the God that was taught at some churches should have been. ie the vengeful God or punishing God. Or the fact that we are unworthy of anything good. I think that's a mind control thing.

I'm INTP myself (maybe borderline INFP), and I, too, have a self-destructive side.

What do you do when you know what the wise course of action is, but your emotions or your Id or some less-wise part of your brain pushes you in another direction?

Indeed the Creator does. :-)

Bizarre world 🌎