The author's husband confessed her: "I don’t believe in God." When he said that, the author was shocked, but her faith also started to crumble. They were married when she was 19, and they had promissed they would be married to each other until they die and comitted to God, because both were Mormons. However, she wouldn't criticize him for what he was doing, and because of her guilt, the relationship began to deteriorate. She almost went for divorce, until her husband told her that "[he's] so terrified of losing [her] and the boys." With the loss of faith, he became obsessed with death, and she began to feel terrible. He was disrespecting many of the church laws, such as not wearing the sacred Temple undergarments and reading about Mormonism from other sources but from Mormons. She sought help from a friend, but it didn't help much. She was afraid of losing her faith, because she had been taught like this for her entire life, but "What felt like an end, though, slowly opened up into something else." She began reading about poligamy too, and that's when her faith came to an end. When she finally became an atheist, she could wear "Victoria Secret panties," cosume "alcohol, coffee and tea." Also,"the Mormon Church teaches that marriage can only thrive if God is an equal part of it. But when [she] left God out of it, [she was] free to love each other completely, to share the burden of [their[ grief as two individuals with no one else."
The author starts with a quote, which captivates the reader's attention because of the tie between the title and the quote. Her paragraphs are well separated, for she divides them both chronologically and by issue. It's mainly an anedoctal essay, beause of her experience as a converted atheist, and because of her constant use of personal pronouns. Her peculiarity is that she separates some paragraphs to describe what happened and others to what were the consequentces of it. She also does a good job of giving some explanations to the sins he was comitting, like when "temple garments — the sacred underwear he’d promised to wear day and night," because most people reading it won't be Mormons, and they won't understand the sins they couple is committing unless they have some explanation.
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/01/but_im_a_good_mormon_wife/
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