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Originally Posted by Pianoman
There are some people that were very passionate about their UPC church, or maybe the UPC itself before leaving. When the relationship is broken, the passion finds another way to vent. There truly is a thin line between love and hate.
There are passionate feelings of hurt or abandonment from both sides for a period of time. With time, the passion will disipate. Believe it or not, eventually one will think of the person or church as any other person or church.
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I agree that time is a great healer. When you reach that point where you just can't conscientiously continue in an organization, the parting causes those on both sides to feel abandoned by those they had considered to be their friends. I know we had close friends who felt that we had abandoned them in leaving the UPC. Of course we were feeling hurt that those we had considered our friends simply cut us off. While those friendships have never been fully recovered, we now understand more clearly the dynamic involved and are much more accepting of the reality that our lives have simply taken different directions in life.
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