When I would ask my mom if I could speak to her alone, he always forbid it. He also made sure to guard over my mom when she was home from work so we couldn’t get alone time with her. Another time, he pinned me to his bed and tried to cast Satan from me because I refused to call him “Father.” Sometimes he would dig up scriptures about women obeying their husbands or children honoring their fathers to drive his point home. He dictated everything, and constantly reminded us that as the priesthood holder, he was the head of the household and he was in charge. When we were together at morning scripture reading or the dinner table, we couldn’t speak unless spoken to. What about your relationship with your stepdad made your childhood difficult? Hippie Boy is available to order as an ebook or paperback. In her memoir Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, she discusses her tumultuous childhood growing up in a devout Mormon household, and how she would escape her home life by living her summers on the road selling tools with her father. But author Ingrid Ricks grew up in a very different situation. One might assume that growing up in Utah means living in a house with a white picket fence and a childhood filled with church activities.
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