Strange Love: My Affair with a Guy in a Cult

And how a dog deprogrammed me.

Adeline Dimond
13 min readJul 19, 2021

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Marble 2-sided relief, Roman, 1st Century A.D. | Metropolitan Museum’s Open Access Program

My Dad told me not to use the word “cult.” As Jews we had our fair share of being marginalized (see: all of history), and we weren’t going to marginalize anyone else. But then I matched with Jeremy on Bumble.

Jeremy spent years traveling to another country as part of a religious group named after This One Guy…

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