I grew up Mormon and made excuses for years for my first “boyfriend” that assaulted, raped, me and even would park up the street from my house to see me come home and ram his car into mine. Right outside my parents bedroom window, and he’d make insurance claims on my parents insurance. It took a lot for me to be on my own at 17, and my parents were still supporting this guy even now. I moved out. In my apartment he’d climb through the window or hide in the bushes, every day. my friends would follow me home from work and I’d alert my room mate that I’m on my way. He’d call my job and threaten me, police officers have heard first hand his threats to slash my tires then I leave work and of course my tires are slashed. Yet never has it been enough evidence. By now, I have two kids with this rapist. He pays $30 a month total in child support and continually takes me to court. Obviously costing me far more then the sporadic $30 he pays in total for 2 kids. The bailiffs thankfully usually recognize the situation and walk me out and keep him away. But it’s more than 20 years of my life that this abusive person has impacted to the point not me and more important the kids can’t live freely and certainly have not felt safe. I contribute this to me being raised Mormon and initially when I met him, it seemed normal. This is easy going compared to many of my friends experiences. Obviously I try to get custody and press charges, but 21 years later it’s still only resulting in costing me money and he disappears. Which I’ll pay that money happily if it means he’s not around to break through my window anymore. I happily work for far less then I should as my job has security everywhere and no car passes without approval. When my kids and I feel unsafe we can at least sleep in the car in my work parking lot. Kalani is going through some shit, and isn’t innocent. But y’all show your ignorance being so hard on her. She’s doing an amazing job considering she grew up Mormon (as did I) and Samoan. I know many people and have many family members that are Samoan, or Tongan such beautiful and amazing traditions and culture to keep alive. It also comes with some darkness such as asuelos mom not caring about the kids but wanting money to give to her church. I don’t know for sure the church Asealos mom goes to. But I know growing up lds we often watched a video of missionaries going to an island and paying 8 cows for a wife. 8 cows was a lot. Then they converted the whole island. There’s a byu hawaii. All sense says this is likely Samoa or tonga most likely both. It’s a whole beautiful culture corrupted by a fucking cult.