You sound to me like a success story. I'm sorry to hear it meant being cut off from your family - that must be difficult. And I suppose a lot of people compromise because they don't want to cut themselves off from their family.

It's a whole strange world to me; my family were sort of socialist Protestants and they thought the will of God was for everyone to be intelligent, broad-minded, tolerant and rational.

I guess I was fairly lucky in my family background.