Love Under Surveillance: The Truth About Dating Inside the Cult

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I open up about a part of cult life I’ve never fully unpacked in one place: what it meant to navigate relationships—romantic ones—while still inside the group. Dating wasn’t a normal developmental experience. It wasn’t playful or curious or exploratory. It was shaped by fear, spiritual consequences, and unspoken rules meant to keep everyone in line. I talk about the subtle and not‑so‑subtle pressures, the way partners were evaluated through the lens of “spiri...