Episode 152: Spelling It Out

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

For some Latter-day Saint women, embracing the journey may include reckoning with difficult aspects of the church experience that are specific to women. Some may choose to leave when they find their personal cost exceeds their benefit. In Episode 152, Susan and Cynthia muddy the water around the decision to 'stay' with a frank discussion about things a woman may have to accept, ignore, or sacrifice in order to make that choice.

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0:00.0	I can change my engagement with the church, but I feel like as a woman in the church, I'm in the
0:08.6	position where it's like desperately wanting to improve your marriage when you're the only one who's
0:14.2	committed to making it better, right?
0:16.7	Or even willing to acknowledge that there's a problem with it.
0:18.8	It's like I can go to all the marriage counseling in the world by myself, but the relationship won't change.
0:24.8	The only option that I have is to change my relationship to the relationship.
0:30.1	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynnworth.
0:35.0	And I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:38.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:40.0	We were women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:43.0	And the title of today's episode is Spelling it Out.
0:48.0	Hmm.
0:50.0	What do we mean by that?
0:52.0	What are we spelling out today?
0:53.5	Susan. We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out because this episode is about
1:00.7	a chapter that I wrote for Chris Kimball's book, Living on the Inside of the Edge, a
1:06.7	Survival Guide.
1:07.7	It was published by Common Consent Press and it came out in January of this year, so it's been out for a while now and a lot of our listeners may have read it already.
1:16.7	I know that it's been helpful and popular in this space for a lot of people.
1:21.9	So yeah it has. I was privileged to have an opportunity to contribute to it, but the reason that we're talking about it today
1:29.0	is that it sort of fits in as part of this three-part series that we're doing, kind of taking on the whole why we stay
1:38.9	and why some women can't stay. It's the staying and not staying question that we're looking at in these
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