Religious teaching differs from other parental teaching in that some parents use religion as a means of manipulation.
Having grown up in a religious family where addiction and codependency were present I witnessed the potential for manipulation in parental religious teaching first-hand.
What follows in my essay is my personal experience with religious triangulation and my ensuing struggle with it. The thoughts and ideas I share here are entirely mine. They are the fruit of my personal struggle and the selp-help I invented for myself while I trekked down the bumpy road of healing from manipulation.