TW RELIGIOUS ABUSE For context, I grew up catholic, but after spending my life in catholic school (until high school), going to church multiple times a week (forced), catholic girls camp (indoctrination) I had enough. As soon as I turned 18 I told her I would not be going to church anymore. I’ve had enough of the trauma and PTSD, since many of my teachers from school were physically abusive. She quite literally threw a tantrum when I told her this and cried and used emotional manipulation to get me to agree to at least go once a month. Finally, when I was 22 and in my last years of college I put my foot down and refused to go at all (save for one Christmas where her and my aunt were sobbing and pulled the car over on the side of the highway after I told them I didn’t want to go to Christmas mass). Anyway, for the past few years, anytime I say “oh my god” instead of “oh my gosh”, she goes out of her way to “correct” me and tell me not to say it. She tells me I’m “not respecting her or our religion” as if I’m still catholic. She turns it into this huge argument instead of just moving past it. She doesn’t correct anyone else, just me. And if I didn’t have the religious background I do I’m not sure I would mind, but given that I despise the church personally, it makes me uncomfortable to conform to her beliefs like that. I admire her devotion and would never discriminate anyone based on their beliefs. I think it’s just disrespectful to try to force me to conform because it makes her upset. I would think as my mother she would at least try to empathize with my religious experience. But I know she won’t. AITAH?

(More context, she is the kind of die hard catholic that thinks the church can do no wrong and would make catholicism the national religion if she could).