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One of the Orange County ‘Mormon Wives’ Is … Bobbi Althoff?

Photo: Kayla Thompson/Broadimage Entertainment/Shutterstock The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is heading west. On Wednesday, Hulu announced that…
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One of the Orange County ‘Mormon Wives’ Is … Bobbi Althoff?

Photo: Kayla Thompson/Broadimage Entertainment/Shutterstock The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is heading west. On Wednesday, Hulu announced that…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #bobbialthoff #celebrity #Culture #Entertainment #momtok #Mormonism #realitytv #theoc #TheSecretLivesOfMormonWives
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Mashable: Bachelor Nation, #MomTok furious over violent video of Taylor Frankie Paul. “Paul is a #MomTok influencer, with over 6 million followers, and the star of Hulu’s reality hit, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives…. The 2023 video, released by TMZ, shows Paul kicking Mortensen and putting him in a chokehold while Paul’s young daughter is nearby on a couch. Paul then starts throwing […]

Digging in to Season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and I've got to say, most of these women are extremely capable of growth, and it shows.

It's been good practice for me to test my ability to spot red flags of people who are genuinely toxic, and probably always will be, vs. those who are just mimicking unhealthy behavior they learned within a toxic culture.

And when people do change, seeing if it sticks or if they're just manipulating people.

And I'm watching passive women conditioned to capitulate and defend bad behavior eventually come into their power.

I'm really proud of most of these kids as they come into their own. I'm cheering them on. Yes, even *that one,* who is maybe(?) starting to show some glimmers of self-awareness and being genuine.

These are the kinds of cultural forces swiftly changing LDS culture, and why I say Therapy Culture is the biggest secret threat to the institutional abuse culture within religious authoritarianism and fascism.

Though it often makes me uncomfortable, I unironically love this show.

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