rSlash - r/Bestof My Dad Saved Me from a Cult!

Episode Date: August 12, 2023

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where OP almost gets abducted by a cult. Our next reddit post comes from our slash legal advice. My mom and stepdad are really into new age science and beliefs. I've never agreed with them on this, and I didn't know how extreme it was. Recently though, they've become involved in an extremely weird support group. I say support group in quotes because I have no f'ing clue who they are. Whenever I'm around, they never mention any group names or what organization they work for or are a part of. Because of this, I haven't had much

luck finding out who they are. This Monday, my mom and stepdad sat me in my four siblings down. They told us that we'll be moving at the end of the month to a more stable location within a spiritual community. According to them, they plan to pull all five of us kids out of school here and enroll us in their mind-awakening school where we're going to move to. For clarity, I'm 16 years old. I tried to get more details out of them, but they refused to talk to me at all about it.

According to them, it's because I'm still a child in mind, body, and spirit, and I need to listen to them and not ask questions. I've actually been freaking out since then, and I've been trying to get advice, but I've been unable to. They cut off the internet, phone, and TV on Tuesday, and they've been keeping an f-ing laser focus on me and my sibling since then. I'm currently at a friend's house, and this is the only way that I've actually gotten access to the internet. This seems 100% like a cult to me. Last night, they had three people come and talk to me in my siblings, and the stuff they told us was effing crazy. I was talked to alone by an old man

who told me about how my mind is closed and that I'll slowly learn to open it as my parents have, and that their leaders will love to meet me and put me into their programs. I need to know what the eff I can do here. My dad has shared custody of me, and since Monday, I've had no contact with him. He's supposed to have a phone call with me every night, but my mom claims that he's been informed of this and supports this 100%. Yo, guys, reading this post is giving me major anxiety.

I don't know what the updates are, but I hope Opie gets out of here. This is giving me major anxiety. I don't know what the updates are, but I hope Opie gets out of here. This is giving me anxiety. I tried calling my dad this morning, but he didn't answer. He lives in another state, so it's kind of hard to get into contact with him outside of phone and email.

I met a friend's house because I was able to leave the house for the first time in a week this morning after I told my parents that I wanted to go to the park, but I came here instead and told my friend everything. My friend's parents aren't home, but she's trying to call them, and I plan to stay here tonight if I can. My parents have forbidden me from using the internet because, quote, it's full of lies from them. I'm so lost right now it makes me sick. I don't want to go with him into this cult compound and I need to know what the F I can do here. Can I just run away and can my parents get me in trouble?

If my mom's been lying about my dad, can he do anything? Then OP added more clarifying information and edit. I talked to my mom and told her that because I'd be moving soon and this might be one of the last times that I could see my friend. I would like to stay the night, and she said, okay, and that his family was trustworthy and wouldn't try to corrupt my views. I got in contact with my dad, and he is pissed.

He did not agree to this, and was told that I didn't wanna talk to him. My 15 year old sister's dad was told the same thing, despite the fact that he has primary custody, and she only spent summers with us. My sister's dad is gonna call same thing, despite the fact that he has primary custody and she only spend summers with us. My sister's dad is gonna call Child Protective Services too, and I just got done with my call to them, but I won't repeat what they said to me here. I'll be spending the night at my friend's house. My dad told me that when my mom tells me to come back tomorrow, I am not to go

back to her, and I'm supposed to tell her that my dad is going to be flying down to Florida immediately if I don't check in with him or if he hears that I went back to her. He says that he's already looking into emergency custody. I want to take a quick moment to thank my friends' parents because, oh my god have they been great! They've been working with my dad right now to help me. I'm also going to go buy a burner phone tomorrow and withdrawing all of my money from the bank. My dad says it'll handle getting my stuff from my mom when the time comes. Then about one month later, OP posted an update. So after I stayed the night with my friends family, my mom and stepdad tried to get me to come back home immediately. My dad said not to go,

so I somehow convinced my mom to let me stay the rest of the day, and I would come home that night. This plan didn't work out very well, though, because my sister's dad called the cops to report that he couldn't contact my sister, and he was afraid that she'd been kidnapped. It didn't take long for my mom to catch on that I was the one who leaked their plans to my dad, and they freaked out. My mom then came to my friend's house, and tried to force her way in to take me because I'd been corrupted. And I had to be locked away from that influences until we left for the compound.

My friend's parents called the cops and I called my dad and my dad got to talk to my mom. I'll leave it short and say that this was a nightmare situation that almost ended up with my mom being charged with trespassing. My mom and dad argued on the phone for over three hours outside of my friend's house. In the end, my dad made it so that I wouldn't have to go back with my mom, but the only safe place that my mom would agree to me staying was my uncles who was four hours away. I stayed with my uncle for over a week, and it was the worst week of my life. My mom called me constantly to try to talk to me and save you from the evil energy your father possessed you with.

My stepfather also began to send me various threats and told me that at the end of the month I was coming no matter what. After a week of this, everything changed. My mom stopped calling me, my stepdad stopped texting, and they went quiet for four days. Me, my uncle, my dad, all of us couldn't reach them. My sister's dad also couldn't reach them. During this time, my mom bought my sister a plane ticket home, and my sister's dad only learned about this when he got a call after my parents dropped my sister off at the airport.

After this, my mom called me one last time. She told me that she had been meditating, praying to my guardian spirits daily, and talking to their leaders. All to help me open your third eye to see the truth, and understand that you were being used by evil. During these sessions, she apparently realized the truth, and saw me for the evil spawn that you are. According to her, I'm an evil seed who is brought here to bring evil spirits onto her and her good children. I also, what? I also infected the womb and corrupted my sister. What is it, what is she talking about? Infected his mom's womb or infected his sister's womb. My mom told me to send my uncle down to pick up all of my worldly possessions that were

infected and to not come with them or to ever contact her and her family again. She ended by telling me that I was never her child and that she hopes the universe deals with me. The last contact I know about from her was her telling my dad that she wants to revoke her parental rights. At the end of the last month, they moved to the compound with my three siblings. I moved out to live with my dad, and I've been in therapy since then. Things are pretty raw right now, and I really don't feel like getting into the emotions

that I feel towards this. But I feel like at least updating this Reddit post might be a start. OP, while it is certainly a huge relief that you and your sister were able to get out, I, uh, I'm going to have nightmares about your three step-siblings, man. I can't imagine what's going to happen to them. I don't want to imagine what's going to happen to them, but we all know what's going to happen to them. Holt Renfrew is sharing joy for the holidays with gifts for everyone on your list, and

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a freshman in high school and he was a freshman in college. He was walking his dog at the park when he stopped to talk to my brother because they happened to go to high school together. That was the moment I became hooked. That same day I found his Instagram, his family social media, and also where he lived since my brother offered to walk him home while I tagged along. When I got home that day, I knew that I wanted him, but of course I was only 14 while he was 18 so I

came up with a plan. I found out his younger brother was only one year younger than me and would be attending my current high school. I figured that I had to befriend his younger brother by any means possible next year when he moves up as a freshman while I become a sophomore, and I did. It took about half of my junior year where we became best friends and he invited me over often in his house to hang out. This is where I was able to be a friend my current husband's mom and God did she love to

talk about him. From her, I found out what college he goes to, his past girlfriends, what his elementary and middle school was, his favorite and least favorite foods, his pet peeves, what he likes, etc. Eventually, when my visit started getting more and more frequent, I formally met my current husband again. My current husband, Edward, would come over every other week and stay for either Friday to Sunday or Saturday to Sunday.

On those days specifically, I would wear my cutest outfits to impress him, and also joke around with him a lot. Eventually, I befriended him as well. A little background about Edward, he's a school record holder for a certain sport at my school, which I just so happened to do also. And around halfway through the senior year, Edward came back during the season to help coach the current high school athletes, which included me in order to get more volunteer work hours in. And I got to spend a lot more time with them. I loved every second of it. We were friends before, but then we became much closer

since I got to spend lots of extra time with them after school, whereas sometimes he would even drive me home since we lived relatively close. Fast forward to when I had to move away to New York City for college. Edward moved with me since he coincidentally got a job near my college.

At it, I lied, it was not a coincidence. I found out that he got a job offered and I applied to a college nearby his workplace. Being each other's only friends in a new state, we became incredibly close. We started dating when I was a sophomore in college, he proposed to me after I graduated and we just got married almost a year ago. He knows absolutely nothing about how I truly know him and believes that it's fate that brought us together through his younger brother. Lately, I've been debating on whether or not I should tell him or at least his younger

brother the truth, since the only reason I befriended him was to get close to Edward. I feel guilty every time that he tells others our love story, because the truth is, I've known him for 10 years, while he's only known me for about 7. Then about one week later, O.P. posted an update. I told him the truth on the 4th of July. After the fireworks mostly ended and we were hitting back, I asked him in the car. Wouldn't it be weird if we met each other before the first time we met? But we just didn't think of each other as significant at the time. He smiled and turned to me saying,

Tch, that's impossible! There's no universe where we would have met and I wouldn't think of you as significant. That statement struck me in the heart, because I knew that I would soon prove that sentence very wrong. But I continued on with my plan anyways. I said, what if I told you that we have met each other before? Before that time that I was introduced as your little brother's friend. He looked at me like I was crazy, so that's when I pulled over to the side of the road, pulled out my phone, and showed him my reddit post. It took him about eight minutes to read the whole thing. When he finished, he put the phone down and stared straight ahead, almost like he was dumbfounded, scared, and confused all at the same thing. When he finished, he put the phone down and stared straight ahead, almost

like he was dumbfounded, scared, and confused all at the same time. I started throwing out every excuse and apology I could muster at the moment for about 15 minutes straight when he decided to tell me to stop and I did. Then he just sat there and sobbed uncontrollably for about 10 minutes before he finally asked me how much of our relationship, how much of my identity was fabricated according to his liking. I told on the honest truth that none of my personality or identity was fabricated for him, except for the fact of how we met. The only thing I ever changed about myself to make him like me more was lying about liking Chinese food.

I hate Chinese food. But other than that, everything else was real. Although my friendship with his younger brother was built upon ill intentions, my friendship between his brother and I are now one of the most genuine friendships I have. He just cried and told me that he doesn't want to divorce me, but he does want us to have some time apart so that he could absorb the truth that I gave him. He also said that he expects me to tell his brother and mom this Friday because they deserve to know the truth just as much as he did. I told him okay, and we drove the rest of the ride home in silence.

When we got home, he hugged me and cried for about 5 minutes before he got out the car, packed his stuff, and said that he'd be staying at a nearby hotel for now. He says that he knows that he still loves me, but he doesn't know how to react to the fact that the beginning of our relationship was very, very orchestrated. To sum it all up, I guess telling him was a success? I honestly don't know. He sent me a good night and an I love you text message last night while he was at the hotel, so I guess he's not as much mad as he is betrayed.

Then O.P. posted an update. I woke up this morning to find out that my husband not only lied about going to a hotel to stay at, but also lied about not wanting a divorce through a text message. He went to his family's home, not an F.ing hotel. He told them the entire story himself, probably exaggerated it too to make me seem crazy.

His whole family wants nothing to do with me and claims that I'm a psycho? He said that he lied about going to a hotel because he knew that if he told the truth, then wouldn't I try to stop him? But honestly, I feel so betrayed. I tried to be a good wife by showing him the true me, and this is what he does.

I did all this work just for it to end up like this. Honestly, I kinda deserve it. I didn't tell him because I was feeling bad. I told him because I had a suspicion that he was catching on to the fact that I knew him for 2 and a half years before he knew me, largely because I found out that he was keeping my old phone in his work desk. My old phone, which has screenshots of a lot of his old Instagram posts, as well as plans in my notes app about him.

So I guess he never truly loved me if he can't even get past and honest confession like this one. I might update this post in a few years when I find a new husband, Lowell. Opie, um, I don't think your husband needs to exaggerate the story to make you seem crazy. The story sounds pretty crazy all in its own. Also, I'm going to read this top post from Choco Bears because it really echoes what I'm thinking. Rarely in my left speech, listen to this on Reddit these days. But this story.

Our next Reddit post comes from our Slash Legal Advice. My neighbor is suing me because one of my horses nearly killed her kid. She's suing me for around $5,000 and for legal fees as well. She let her kid climb into the paddock with my stallion, who's extremely aggressive and territorial. This woman has been told multiple times to not come onto our property or even touch the horses besides the stallion. Is there any way that I can make a counter claim to this?

I have footage of her letting her kid pet the stallion and some of our other animals. I could pay this off, but I don't want this on my record because I'm about to go and buy a 10 or 15 more horses to fill the land in our farm. I just need to know how I can get this woman to stay off our property permanently so this doesn't happen again. And then one week later, a short and sweet update. So my insurance took care of it, and I only had to pay for about $2,000 for damage to my property.

The mom, on the other hand, was charged with child endangerment and abuse. Apparently, the courts found out that she kept her kids out of school and was using them to get money from her husband. The stallion is also fine. He got lots of treats. That was our slash best of redditor updates, and if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.