The CULT Of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Hello beautiful how you doing today how you doing today you want to learn something useful today not the right video today we're learning about some useless brain Rock knowledge okay Al but you know what I'm actually going to throw in some some actual knowledge throughout this video so stick around you'll actually learned something you could take away from this experience think but unlike this video you are stunning and smart and dare say sagacious Jay you got to put that on the screen probably most of them don't know had to look at myself anyway today we're going to talk about the infamous viral show The Secret Lives of Mormon wives and if you don't know anything about this show this is honestly the perfect video for you it's good synopsis so you don't have to watch this show which wouldn't necessarily recommend but if you like shows reality TV shows that you could just throw on in the background it's fine to do that it's entertaining enough but yeah let's get into it so let's first off start with the synopsis of the show The scandalous world of group of Mormon mom influencers imp plats when they get caught in the midst of swinging Scandal that makes International headlines now their Sisterhood is shook to its core Faith friendship and reputations are all on the line will # mom talk be able to survive and continue to give the rule book run for its money or will this group Fall From Grace the wording in this synopsis is crazy com coming from Christian background crazy yeah mean that's pretty good synopsis in it of itself but it is quite literally that it's it's seven eight eight of them don't don't know I'll talk about them it's eight Mormon or ex Mormon and Mormon moms just thrown into this mix kind of like the Housewives of Orange County or Beverly Hills or some never watched those shows and it's basically just talking about their lives and what kind of scandals they've been through how they came out of the Mormon church or how they're in the Church how Mormon they are how Mormon they aren't and it's just been going crazy on the internet because lot of people have lot of opinions about it Mormons got opinions about it regular people loving the show cuz they don't even understand what's going on yada yada think I've seen quite few videos about this show but nobody really delves into Mormonism in the in the history of it and think that's important like to understand the show and to understand what's going on and like perspectives of the actually religious people that follow those religious rules and and who doesn't so think and this is the little we're going to learn something part we're going to delve into the history of Mormonism otherwise known as The Church of Jesus Christ of the latterday Saints otherwise known as the LDS and then we're going to be talking about the show and all the scandals and all the all the all the all this let's start with the history lesson okay let's talk about it so Mormonism otherwise known as The Church of Jesus Christ of the latterday Saints AKA DS was founded in the 19th century by Joseph Smith AKA what my boyfriend calls the first iPad baby if you get it you get it if you don't you don't it's fine also want to preface that have no opinions on anything really grew up in in the Christian world and stuff and I'm just like I'm basically just giving brief history about this I'm not going to like don't have really much of an opinion because think everybody can believe in what they believe in as long as nobody's getting harmed and I'm good with it so anyway so the movement emerged during time of religious revival in the United States particularly in Upstate New York known as the Second Great Awakening and here's breakdown of how kind of it all started and evolved so first off we have Joseph Smith and the first vision and we're going back to 1820 all right so Joseph Smith was born in 1805 in Vermont and he grew up in religiously Active Family during his teenage years he was confused by the conflicting doctrines of Christian denominations and in 1820 at the age of 14 Smith claimed to have experienced what is called the first vision and in this Vision he reported seeing God the Father and Jesus Christ that's pretty cool who told him that all existing Christian churches were corrupted and that he was the chosen to restore the true church and then in Comes The Book of Mormon from 1827 to 1830 so in 1823 Smith claimed he was visited by an Angel named Moroni Moroni don't know to who directed him to set of Golden Plates buried in hill in pelmira New York and these plates were written in in an ancient language and they were said to contain religious history of ancient American civilization and Smith being the only one who could who could transcribe these plates translated them into what became the Book of Mormon and this was published in 1830 and the book tells story of group of Israelites who sailed to the Americas around 600 BCE and the teachings of Jesus Christ to these peoples after his resurrection so the book serves as an additional scripture alongside the Bible and do kind of want to talk about little bit of the controversy surrounding this cuz think it's important honestly so people can have like the full idea of it but basically the controversy of it was that the plates that were given to Joseph when people ask like whoa where where are the plates he's just like the angel took him back don't know which yeah okay so yeah that happened so nobody could actually physically verify the existence of the plates which obviously LED people to assume that he fabricated the story and Smith claimed to have translated the plates by gift and the power of God using set of sear stones or urum and thumim or later stone placed in hat and later critics and Skeptics would see this and say it was inconsistent with traditional methods of scholarly translation and one of the most interesting ones is that Martin Harris who was one of Smith's first followers was financial Baker and basically he helped him transcribe as in he basically just acted as scribe as Joseph was saying it and Harris had convinced Smith to let him take those hundred 16 Pages home to his wife who was skeptical and then basically she was just like all right well if he he was able to transcribe this then he could transcribe it again so we're going to lose these pages and then he can transcribe it again so when Harris went back to Joseph he was just like we lost the pages can you transcribe it again and Joseph basically said that it was forbidden by God to retranslate that portion so critics would see this as coverup suggesting that Smith invented the story and could not reproduce the same text so it's pretty good like hey man don't make the rules all right where have said this before it's like every cult thing that I've ever said before like hey it's not me all right it's that guy okay want to retranscribe it wish could okay but can't and there's many many more controversies but that's that's kind of the main overarching one so we'll get back into the history of it so we'll talk about the establishment of the church so on April 6th 1830 Joseph Smith officially found at the church of Christ later named The Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints aka the LDS church in fet New York and the church's early members believed that Joseph Smith was modern-day prophet and that he was restoring the true Christian faith and the church would quickly grow attracting converts from various States but it also faced significant opposition and persecution kind of like what was talking about before with all the controversy surrounding it so some of the key events that happened in Mormon history first started with the migration to Ohio and Missouri so Smith and his followers would move to Kirkland Ohio where they would hope to build very strong and religious community and during this time they would establish temple in Kirtland and gain many converts and in 1838 the Mormons would face severe persecution in Missouri leading to the infamous extermination order issued by the governor which essentially legalized violence against Mormons and they were forced to flee don't agree with that don't agree with forcing any violence upon anyone think that's horrendous so the Mormons would move and then settle in navu Illinois sorry if I'm saying that wrong where they built new thriving community and NAU navu NAU I'm sorry quickly grew to become one of the largest cities in Illinois and it was here that Joseph Smith really started to introduce some controversial doctrines such as plural marriage which you probably heard of and it's called polygamy which Drew both internal descent and external opposition and in 1844 tensions between the Mormons and non-mormons grew and grew and and escalated very quickly culminating in the arrest of of Smith and while imprisoned in Carthage Jail Smith and his brother ham were murdered by mob in June 27th 1844 so then comes the Exodus to Utah so after Smith's death Brigham Young became the leader of the majority of the Mormons facing continued prosecution along the way so young would lead the Mormons on Westward Exodus and eventually settling in Salt Lake Valley in present day Utah 1847 so the Mormons would establish new home in what was currently at the time Mexican territory creating Theocratic Community they called the desert and then in the 1850s the Mormon Community absolutely flourished in Utah as we know now lot of them still live there but tensions with the US government continued particularly over the practice of polygamy which had become more public under Brigham Young so the church would officially renounce polygamy in 1890 under the president Wilford Woodruff to facilitate Utah's acceptance as US state and although the mainstream LDS church abandoned that practice splinter groups such as fundamentalist Mormons continue to practice polygamy so let's talk about the Mormon beliefs so Mormon theology is both based off of the Bible and other scriptures unique to the LDS Faith most notably The Book of Mormon so Mormons believe in the godhead consisting of God the father Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost as separate so they're distinct beings but unified in purpose so this differs from traditional Christian concept of the Trinity where God is seen as one being in three persons basically and then comes their Plan of Salvation which is basically Mormons believe in premortal existence where human Spirits lived with God before being born on Earth Earth life is basically just test and depending on how individuals live they will return in God's presence or to lesser degree of glory after death and there are three degrees of Glory or Heaven as some may say there's Celestial terrestrial not those terrestrials know what you're thinking and telestial and the Celestial Kingdom is the highest and is reserved for those who have fully accepted the the teachings of Jesus Christ and that follow the LDS ordinances and Mormons also believe in the continuing Revelation and this means that God continues to speak through modern-day prophets which is very prevalent in Mormonism Joseph Smith being the first and continuing with the subsequent leader of the elist church and they also have temples which are basically sacred buildings where special ordinances are performed such as baptisms for the dead Eternal marriages and ceilings that bind families together for eternity in addition to the Bible like we talked about before Mormons accept the Book of Mormon the doctrine of the covenants and the pearl of great price as scripture and there were lots of other branches of Mormonism as well similar to Christianity where people believe in in certain things and other things this is just kind of the overall arching so don't want to claim that each Mormon is the exact same cuz that's not the case but this is just the overarching history of it and Mormons like lot of other religions kind of have set of practices and guidelines that they need to follow and they call the word of wisdom and these are rules that shape the way they live their life so the word of wisdom being it prohibits the consumption of alcohol tobacco coffee tea and illegal drugs would be screwed I'm just kidding just the coffee part basically and it encourages the consumption of healthy foods and advises against overc consumption of meat as well and then there is tipping where members are expected to contribute 10% of their income to the church to support operations and or charitable work and then they have the Sabbath day where members are encouraged to keep the Sabbath day holy meaning they avoid work or Recreation activities on Sundays and then there's also missionary work where young men and sometimes women are encouraged to serve in missionaries for period of 18 months to 2 years and this is central part of the LDS faith and spreading the LDS Faith so list of things Mormons can't do think the list is extremely long but the kind of main ones are that they cannot have premarital or extramarital seals no pornographer you know what I'm saying pornography no gambling and no tattoos or piercings and again there are I'm sure there are plenty of Mormons that do all of the above mean only speak about Christianity because grew up in the Christian faith but similar to Christan you know like lot of rules are broken but with Christianity you're basically born sinner so you're kind of like just expected to sin and then you just you know say I'm sorry did that you just have to be cognizant of it basically so I'm not saying that you know if you do all these things you're not Mormon don't know how it works okay don't know have no idea I'm just messenger right now okay I'm just saying what read so let's go on to Modern Mormonism then so today the LDS church is one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world with more than 16 million members globally its headquarters are in Salt Lake City Utah and is led by prophet president kind of like who Joseph Smith was each one following him was prophet president so the current Prophet president of the LDS church is Russell Nelson and he became the 17th president of the LDS church in January 14th 2018 following the death of his predecessor Thomas Monson and me having my True Crime mind just just looked into like what Cults have stemmed out of Mormonism and stuff and there's lot and basically these Cults are just kind of like Splinter groups from Mormonism and they're called Cults because of extreme practices think that's when it indicates it's cult is when it's extreme when it's not normal you know so first off you have the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints aka the LDS they're one of the most prominent groups that kind of broke away from the LDS church and this was after they officially abandoned the practice of polygamy so the flds they they're like that's stupid we like polygamy we're gone so the flds officially split for Mormonism in about the 1930s and this group was based in Colorado City Arizona and hildale Utah and the flds was led by self- declared Prophet classic cult who wields nearly absolute Authority not good sounds little dictator to me and one of its most notorious leaders is Warren Jeffs who assumed leadership in 2002 after the death of his father Ruland Jeffs and some of the controversies surrounding Warren specifically were that his his arranged marriages were not great in age ranges if you know what mean you know girl guy gross and there was lot of Sig Abus happening as well and in 2006 Jeff was placed on the FBI's most wanted list and was arrested in 2007 and in 2011 he was convicted of Sig two minors and sentenced to life in prison nice but despite Jeff's imprisonment the ldf the FD my God it's all getting mixed up on my head The llds Remains active although significantly weakened by legal actions and internal divisions but they still practice polygamy essentially that's like the main thing that they do that's different from the ldas church there's also the Kingston Clan also known as the order which is scary sounding or the Davis County cooperative Society doesn't roll off the tongue and it was founded around the 1930s as well by Charles Elden Kingston and like the other fundamentalist groups the Kingston Clan broke away from the mainstream LDS church to continue the practice of polygamy they just loved that idea they're like this is lame now it's lame okay give me more wives but the Kingston Clan specifically was Notorious for incestuous marriages big no no big bad no no and this was to keep the Bloodlines pure knew another guy that liked to keep keep Bloodlines pure you know what I'm talking about and the leadership of the Kingston Clan is basically passed down through the king family every time hear Kingston just want to be like hey oan you Mr Kingston if you know you know which brings me to the Church of the firstborn of the Lamb of God that's mouthful where we have irvil learon who declared himself the rightful prophet of the Mormon faith and introduced the doctrine of the blood atonement that sounds scary which basically Justified the killings of individuals who opposed the leadership of the church so basically him he claimed that those who defied his authority were guilty of grave sins that could only be forgiven through their deaths not cool and LeBron's teachings would lead to series of assassinations known as the learn's killings okay did say LeBron I'm sorry learon it's learon said if said LeBron somewhere it's because that the name was just don't know it's don't know and this is where learon basically ordered the murders of rival leaders including one of his own Brothers Joel sounds like standup guy and by that mean he's not great guy but he would be arrested in 1979 and he would be ordered to life in prison but even from prison he ordered several other murders that would happen even even though he was in prison so this guy had like some serious power and then there's there's other offshoots could go on for quite literally long long time which don't think you want but there's the true and the Living Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter-Day Saints there's the Church of the firstborn Etc anyway that is like the gist of Mormonism obviously the Cults that was talking about it does not revolve around that technically just thought that that was an interesting offshoot that know you guys appreciate hearing about but all that and we go to the brain rot okay we come to # momtalk AKA # brain rot Okay and like said before it is show on Hulu with series that's out it has think Eight Episodes had to double check yep Eight Episodes it's all blur and for those of you who don't know what # momtalk is I'd suggest you don't go down that route but basically it was self founded guess it probably started before her but it was self- founded by Taylor Frankie Paul which is she's like the OG mom talk the OG Mormon mom talk that's kind of what mom talk revolves around know there's plenty of moms on Tik Tok that aren't Mormon but that's what it kind of revolved around there came group of Mormon moms that collectively made up # mom talk I'm going to try to break this down to the most layman's term interesting way can I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty there's lot of other videos If you want to get like the nitty-gritty details I'll I'll tag some of them below but this one's just going to be very brief synopsis so the original mom talk group isn't who's actually in the show there's only actually few people from that original mom talk group that made the show which at first people were like my God what happen what's the tea don't know we don't really know but what we do know is that everything kind of stemmed with scandal with that swinging Scandal that soft swinging Scandal that we we talked about in the in the in the synopsis of the beginning of the video and I'll talk about it briefly right now so in 2022 Taylor Frankie Paul the OG of mom talk the OG Mormon mom talk girl she was on Tik Tok live stream and she was sharing that her and her then husband Tate Paul were getting divorce however it was not the only bomb to be dropped she also said that her and Tate had been soft swinging and if you don't know what that is it's it's this I'm going to put it right here just let you read that and for those of you who didn't read it it's basically it means that they would switch partners with another couple and hook up without going all the way AKA soft swinging not going all the way guess don't know but Taylor claimed that she would hook up with other pairings of the Mormon Tik Tok community and in the video she argues no one was innocent everybody has hooked up with everyone in this situation and this everyone being the rest of the group that was in the original mom talk but she didn't give specific names but it was pretty pretty clear who she was talking about causing an absolute dumpster fire of accusations across their corner of the internet obviously have you talked to your bishop or the church about anything no no how come don't know cuzz like what if they're going to like excommunicate me he when you are out soft swinging what do you expect and what is soft swinging explain that so swinging is where you fool on switch Partners like swingers right yes and so for us we like open up our relationship we like playing games and being intimate all in front of each other so we weren't like full on Switching per se you know we yeah so that's why they called it soft swimming which didn't come up with that term by the way so in the series all the women except Taylor very explic explicitly sorry deny ever swinging or engaging in non- monogamy and while they never name drop any of the members of The Swinging group it is implied that they are not the cast of the show am convinced not really cuz these are crazy in like guess Mormon way they're not like that crazy but we'll get into that as well but from what I've seen I've seen lot of Mormons react to the show specifically and and lot of them say that swinging is pretty common in Mormonism because lot of them get married at very young age which I'll go over the cast and how young some of them were where they got married being like 16 and 18 and starting to have kids so like by the time they're older they're just like need to let loose need to need to you know your husband and you need to be with my husband and my wife or my wife or something don't know but they just basically were children when they started being adults or having responsibilties so they feel like they need to let loose that's what hear not me but it kind of makes sense so some of the OG moms that were in the original mom talk as far as know Kelly Monday and Miranda MCW that's their names on Tik Tok or whatever they aren't on the show so they replaced them with other Mormon moms basically and Mormons did not like the idea of the show being on there was even petition that was being signed by lot of people for the show not to be aired and apparently read that Mormons don't use the term Mormon anymore guess their most recent Prophet exclaims it's the Church of Jesus Christ latterday Saints so don't or maybe Mormonism so if I've been saying that wrong don't know that's what it says literally everywhere look people who are Mormon refer to themselves as Mormon so don't that's just like one article read so don't know if I'm saying that wrong but if am I'm sorry I'm ignorant okay but let's go over the show's cast okay and if got any of that Mom talk drama wrong or names don't care lot that much but here's the show stuff okay so essentially to start off and from my research basically none of them are are really truly Mormon according to Mormons okay according to my re research like they're not acting Mormon some of them claim to be Mormon and some of them have completely dissociated from the church completely basically they split off into groups of saints and sinners Saints being the ones that are still in their first marriages which isn't really said on the show but it kind of just makes sense cuz it is what it is but Saints being the ones that earned their first marriages and that for the most part practice Mormonism still and sinners being people that basically are in second marriages or or not in marriages or divorced and they don't practice Mormonism as much or if at all so let's go over the Saints and the Sinners so first we'll start with Jen Affleck no she's not related to Ben affle or she might be because she kept saying it on the show kind of but not really also they're like well if you marry him you get to say you're related to Ben AIC which he's like second cousin his dad's only met him like once but like I'm like yes I'm related to athle and was named after JLo like I'm here to take their place so Jen is known as saint as she is still in her first marriage she's considered like the second most Mormon out of the groom she wears garments regularly and has also had baby blessing in the show which are both extremely Mormon practices basically and temple garments are basically type of underwear worn by members of the Church of the of Jesus Christ of the later Day Saints my gosh I'm sorry and they are worn as reminder of the covenants made in Temple ceremonies and to symbolize the wearers of the connection to God so they're very important in the religion would say and she's really one or think two of them wear them maybe three it's all blur but anyway most of them don't wear them but Jen was known to wear them but she also like swears on camera and sometimes she did wear IM modest clothing without her garment so like she wouldn't be considered true Mormon guess but would say she's like up there and Jen's story lines basically revolves around her and her difficult marriage with her very controlling husband and she struggles with emotional manipulation and divorce fears make her one of the most sympathetic characters in the show my fans and media and myself empathize with her vulnerability as she navigates through the challenges of the show so that's Jen and the next Saint is Michaela Matthews she's also in her first marriage and she was the one who was married at only 16 years old and she was married to guy that was 21 years old and apparently looking into Utah law basically it says that anyone who is 14 to 15 years old can legally agree to have consensual seual inter you know what with someone who is four years or younger or four years old wait under under four years older does that make sense so he would have to be 20 so that means she had it what she did wasn't legal or what that person did to her wasn't legal should say and that's just not like said in the show at all and I'm just like don't know math very well but mathed it so that was weird that was very strange and it's also just kind of sad but yeah she was her basically her childhood was stolen away from her she also got pregnant at like 16 she is one of the youngest cast members as well and she's basically just grappling with the expectations of early motherhood and her conservative upbringing and her storyline focuses around her struggle to reconcile her youth with the expectations placed by the Mormon community so would say she's pretty up there as as like one of the most Mormon of of the group as well but you know not perfect and that brings us to the next Saint who is Macy Neely she's still in her first marriage and I'd say she's like probably fan favorite she's very much girls girl like she's for everybody she's not like manipulative like some of the other ones or like very judgy like some of the other girls she's like the most Mormon out of all of them wouldn't say like true Mormon but you know she's the most Mormon in practicing she does lot of the practices within Mormon she goes to you know church every Sunday she's she's very mindful of what she says and she's not drinking alcohol all that you know and she even answered some backlash on Tik Tok when people were saying that she wasn't Mormon which was interesting am indeed Mormon am also active in the church grew up Mormon and been Mormon my entire life besides maybe 2-year period where wasn't active in college attend church every single Sunday also have calling in the church also have temple recommend she basically plays central role in some of the season's biggest Revelations and viewers really often sympathize with her as she navigates personal and and group conflict so she she's awesome think she's great and then we have our final saint but would say sinner but anyway she's in her first marriage which makes her Saint or whatever but Whitney Whitney lit leave it leave it leave it alone she is like the clear villain of the show like so clear and those are kind of the people live for in these shows and think some people think like that's their favorite because they love it love the drama and like the going against things but also like being for it don't know but basically she's like the most polarizing figure in the show Whitney balances religious conservatism with her influence her life but she has the infamous RSV Tik Tock incident which didn't even realize was her and after realized it was like and they even talked about it on the show and it's kind of funny obviously not funny the kids's fine and that's good but she literally and pointed at her baby who was like dying of RSV on Tik Tok and she's just like and it's so cringey but here's clip in that video was using my child sickness for clout and for attention so that was big point note in the show can only feel for her because I've been in her exact shoes and that sucks and it will really mess with you mentally and feel like yes to us and maybe everyone else it's not that deep but to her going through through that right now it's very deep and you just know that you it's not good for your mental health regardless of how she's acting out and then she also had very provocative brand deal which was also brought up with sesual toy and this also came up when when something else came up about one of them never before which is also just crazy we'll get into that but yeah she's both admired and criticized for her candidness and willingness to push boundaries let's say and next up we had the Sinners okay the ones that make the show interesting and first up we got Demi or Demi or Demi don't know and she's kind of like the the fan favorite sinner I'd say guess don't know from like what I've read and she kind of like came on strong lot at first like very clearly just wanting to be famous and wanting to be like noticed or whatever but then she kind of as the season goes forward she really like speaks about how women aren't treated equally within within Mormonism in her opinion and how basically women are set up to fail in that faith and everything which was really interesting she doesn't claim to be Mormon anymore at all although she was raised Mormon but yeah her her story her story is very interesting again like it's not bad show like it's interesting to just watch people's lives think that's why people like reality TV like it's obviously so overd dramatized and romanticized and lot of people went into the show like we saw Tik toks after the show was released that all of them thought that they were like the hero of the show but it was so clearly not that most of them sucked so it's just that's why don't like reality TV that much just cuz it's like like you're just watching like fake life it's not like real person's life cuz you never know what's true or what's not so and then the next centner is Jesse and she's basically like the least Mormon she she like she drinks she swears she's baddy you know she completely left the Mormon Church she's just like don't give she like brings up like freaking flask everywhere she goes with VOD Canon or whatever it's like over the top but also kind of SLE don't know she also has hair extension company which kind of is funny because goes along with like the modern Mormon beauty standards they all look the exact same if watched maybe the first five episodes couldn't tell you who was who really because they all look the same maybe except for Whitney cuz she has like shorter hair but it's kind of scary how how similar Mormon women look like they look the exact same so that's really interesting but anyway she has the hair extent sorry have something in my eye that's what get for tucking I'm not really talking I'm talking truth I'm spitting facts I'm spitting straight facts don't know what was saying but yeah Jesse's character doesn't really always take Center State age but when it does her loyalty and emotional depth become very evident that's why she's like she is pretty liked think among most people she's viewed as like very like stabilizing Force within the group although she's usually caught in like the middle of larger conflicts but she's like one of the more levelheaded is grou don't know again it's kind of all blur did notes and then just kind of got ADHD brain man anyway that's her next Center we have Taylor Frankie Polly AKA OG of the group OG mom talk or whatever she is The Sinner not the sinner but like you know I'd say the most I'd say the most polarizing person on the show just given her history so she's obviously divorced and she's also remarried she's kind of known as like the the imperfect hero of the group and to lot of other people especially on social media she's trying she tried to take that swinging Scandal and try to turn it into something better like she's trying to become better person and do this because don't know and say don't know because she also got arrested for domestic violence bomb drop and basically you're saying what happened did she like slap her husband across the face or something no she threw chair at wall guess that it but it didn't it hit her kid it hit her 5-year-old child and she got she got arrested for that it's pretty bad and it's kind of hard to like just dismiss and they kind of dismiss it in the show cuz the show really tries to paint her as like heroin she's basically she's woman trying to make herself better going to like probation meetings and and doing all these good things basically but it's kind of hard to just forget that you she threw chair at her kid sometimes it's hard to take the show seriously cuz like you don't know whether to feel bad for her cuz at some moments you really do and she's also pregnant during the show so that just adds to that kind of empathy but sometimes always think cuz I'm just cynical person that it's very calculated and it's it's reality TV you know all of them want to become rich and famous that's why they're on the show all of them want money and fame there's no other way to go about it so like it's hard to think that she's not very calculated in how she's presenting herself there's also like clipss of her in the past with her believe ex-husband at the time just acting strange and don't know it's just all weird and don't like automatically feel bad for her kind of just I'm questioning intentions basically not that think anybody can't change think that's that's that's life you know but when it's on reality television everyone's full of pretty much so and last but not least we have ilila the last Sinner and she's actually the only single one as well she is also one of the ones that got married at very young age which was 18 years old and she would be divorced at 22 years old and have child so she literally went through like some of the most pivotal years of her life being married and divorced and like by the time most people can drink and are halfway through college she had already married divorced and had kid so like can't even imagine that like as woman as human being just like how much that would with your head and that they kind of show that Journey as well and she's the one that said she's never finished in her life as which brings up all the seual toy scandal with Whitney and everything and it's just kind of sad it's just kind of sad to see how some of the women are just so blind to the rest of Life they're so like pushed into this one little pocket even though they've are like out you know they're still in it like they don't like most of them besides what's her phrase who drinks vodka they they like Vice is pop or soda for the Americans say pop cuz I'm Canadian and it's crazy that's like how they get like they're just like freaking like doing shots of pop it's just like what is happening right now 44 sparkling water with sugar-free coconut sugar-free vanilla sugar-free raspberry sugar-free pineapple and coconut cream chef's kiss and like the the funniest thing about this all is like they're all like twerking on Tick Tock they're all like doing basically anything that you would assume Mormon wouldn't do they're just doing it they're wearing like like scantily clad clothing not all of them but most of them and it was just all strange don't know again just think reality TV in general is just like like brain Rod but what do know speaking of twerking did you actually this has nothing to do with twerking not really but it's fun it's fun and cool like twerking guess and it's sour boys wanted to give you guys another little promo another little promo cuz you guys have been loving the candy and we love that we have little guys we have new sour boys candies and just wanted to gift you little something if you've hung around this long in the video you know think an appropriate little promotion code will be twerk let's do it let's do it together let's say all caps twerk let's do percentage off let's give you 15% off your whole order and let's do think last time we did 500 Let's do let's do 500 let's do 500 orders so the first 500 of you we'll get 15% off which think is pretty cool thank you guys for supporting my little co-owned business with my lovely lovely boyfriend Caleb and let's get back to it let's get back to the twerking moms so use code twerk at checkout or you can just use the link that put in the description of the comments or somewhere down below but yeah the whole show just navigates like Mormonism and and Scandals and relationships faith everything it is interesting but again like it being reality TV you just don't know how much is like completely made up or or manipulated or all that so it's just hard for me to like really en encapsulate myself in it like some other people do guess but the most I'd say would go over every single episode but want you to you know hang around so I'll basically just go over like the biggest scandals first of all one of the biggest scandals within the series was The Swinging Scandal obviously where Taylor Frankie Paul confessed her involvement in soft swinging and that lifestyle where couple swap partners and whatnot and that most of the other moms do the same thing and this think is what really captivated viewers to start watching the show as well and then we have Whitney's villain Arc basically she has like very hypercritical Behavior criticizing Taylor's lifestyle while posting sponsorship Instagram photo of seual toy like said which left viewers like completely flabbergasted which is hilarious and Whitney also had like multiple tense confrontations with some of the other cast members and she was called out by other fellow cast members for her being like really judgmental with her attitude towards people that weren't like as Mormon as her and like cutting ties with former friends which led to some explosive feuds and then we have Jen Affleck's relationship with her very controlling husband it was very major storyline within the show he even threatened to divorce her at some point in the show if she attended the Chip and Dales ceremony if you will do you want to go to that no think it's more of like funny thing if we do end up going being divorced and taking care of two kids would be kind of tough so guess you make the decision it was basically like the trip to Vegas that's and that's all just sad dude hate hate that hate watching that it was it's like hard to watch but it basically showcase like the oppressive Dynamics within some marriages portrayed in the show which sparked lot of like controversial and emotional manipulation gender roles with in the Mormon community and then we had you know the infamous baby shower like Feud where basically like one of them had baby shower and some of them weren't invited because they weren't Mormon enough and couldn't go into the temple and it was just whole thing it was just like what the is Wendy not here yet don't know fashionably late did she tell her she's not coming no and told her maybe she should but she said that Taylor's probably not even going to notice and then there's whole vegus meltdown and toilet paper incident where during dinner scene after an emotional blow up Whitney returns to the table with with piece of toilet paper tuck stuck to her shoe which is just like classic and like so feel like staged and the editors highlighted it like so much which maybe it wasn't stage but it's like pretty funny so it was like kind of comical moment within the series with many calling it like reality TV gold which if that's gold on TV we are doomed but anyway like there was there was lot of like pivotal moments and there's lot of emotional moments and everything and like hearing about their lives with having children and getting getting married young and and getting divorced and and not being accepted in their Community it's all it's all interesting but some critics do feel that the show didn't really deeply dive into the Mormon values and instead focused on like sensationalism which is fair and just probably gave the viewers very skewed image of religion and that's kind of why went over like all the all the stuff in the beginning of the video cuz think it is important to have like context context matters context matters lot of creators have pointed out how the show really emphasizes like interpersonal feuds such as power struggles within marriages and friendships over genuine exploration of faith and obviously as we know that the Mormon Community doesn't really like the show to be fair it's basically drawn attention to all like the most negative parts of the culture essentially and the influence or lifestyle that these women lead is not in line with most people in the Mormon culture so it's kind of like an insult almost but from watching lot of Mormon creators like they're like no this is kind of what it's like so many people said that the Secret Lives of Mormon wives would not be an accurate representation of Mormonism but after benching the show could not disagree more okay these are my thoughts on Secret Lives of Mormon wives know lot of people are not super happy about like I'm using the word Mormon in the title whatever they feel like it's misrepresenting Utah and mostly like the church don't feel like that's true at all feel like everything that saw was very very accurate which is also Fair like there's like no nobody's perfect and nobody's like I'm perfect and I'm going to follow all the rules so that's fair as well and this is just coming from like the Mormon Church the like you know the the ones that are deep in it but in statement shared in August about the show the LDS church hinted at its dissatisfaction with the portrayal of its religion in wider message titled when entertainment media distorts faith and then they said we understand the Fascinations some in the media have with the church but regret that portrayals often rely on sensationalism and inaccuracies that do not fairly and fully reflect the lives of our church members or the sacred beliefs that they hold dear so mean you know Fair people aren't perfect and people are going to live their lives and people are going to be in religions and people are just like they're going to follow it the way they follow it so it's just it is just is what it is if anything it highlights that people are imperfect and how true that is which think is valuable you know but anyway yeah overall The Secret Lives of Mormon wives my Lord it offers plenty of drama and controversy and it has lot of you know deeper implications regarding marriage and faith and and emotional abuse and it's work some serious discussions among viewers and critics alike especially like creators like myself and on Tik Tok are talking about it some some are are very you know for it it's like must-watch reality show and they're all like reality enthusiasts and then there are some people questioning the ethics behind the show and the portrayal of the sensitive topics which I'm kind of not in either side of the category I'm like watched it mostly for this video and think it's TV you know think you really just shouldn't take it that seriously especially 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