I’ve escaped cult’s control
Rebecca writes: I’ve known about the Barefoot Investor for years, but I couldn’t buy your book as I was being severely controlled physically and financially by my parents, who raised my siblings and me in a religious cult that considered living in poverty as absolute for being a devoted follower.
My parents literally took every cent I earned for over a decade and coerced us into paying off their five personal investment properties.
Last year, after getting a good legal team and a Supreme Court hearing — and breaking free of the cult I was born into — I purchased your book as a birthday present to myself (celebrating birthdays was forbidden in the cult).
My husband and I are now working through the Barefoot Steps together and I have purchased your book for my siblings and their partners, as well as the few close friends who haven’t shunned me after I escaped the cult. I’m truly happy for the first time in my life and have control over my own finances. Thank you.
Barefoot responds: There are no winners in this situation … but a couple of sinners.
Your parents applied a religious lens to justify their behaviour, but they were really motivated by greed, power and control. (Though you don’t need to be in a cult to practise monetary manipulation. I meet plenty of women in abusive relationships who have been forced to take out car loans … but don’t have a licence.)
Standing on your own two feet financially will be part of your recovery and it’ll help rebuild your self-confidence. Welcome to the Barefoot “cult”!
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