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I have been going to the same church for about 4 years now. I have never felt really comfortable here. My husband recently has been feeling like he wants to change churches. My mom, who is 81 y/o and has physical and mental health problems, is happy here and doesn't want to go anywhere else. I don't want to pull her out of church. On the other hand I would really love to have a "church family". One of the things that bothers me is that my mom has bipolar schizoid affective disorder. She got off her meds and we had to have her hospitalized to get her back on them. She has been mad ever since but seems to be better now. During this time she said a lot of bad things about my husband and me and I know some of them she told her Sunday School class. They weren't true but I wonder if they believed her. Some of the women in that class acted kind of cool toward me for awhile. Also it bothered me that only one person in the class called us to check on her while she was out though she was out a long time. A couple of people told me they were told she had been out a while and I'm fairly sure they were talking among themselves about it. It sure would have been nice to have had someone to talk to during this time. If someone in church dies or is severely ill we don't know about it unless we read it in the paper. What would you do if you were me? Also are all churches this way? I love God. He has been very good to me. I have thought about just staying home and worshipping here but as I said I want a "church family". We've struggled a lot with mom's mental illness over the years and she doesn't want anything much to do with her family now, won't talk to her sister. I don't know why, just something she has imagined that her sister did I guess.