Do you feel comfortable with celebrating the holidays? (page 2)

Lilycurly

Yes...I know what you mean, my dad lives 10 minutes away from my appartment, and when I had just faded out (a very abrupt fading, but the point is I was not DAd or DFd. Well, that year, my father saw the Christmas tree with all it's lights in the corner of my living room. And he asked me later if it was me or my sister who decided to put it up....I said we BOTH did. The strange thing is, from that point, he just looked dissapointed, but even if he knew I was celebrating (thus should be DFd) he still continued talking to me.

acuragirl

HELL NO!

acuragirl

TOTALLY UNCOMFORTABLE,STILL NOT SURE ABOUT HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR!

Crumpet

welcome to the board jamelle! good to have you here.

For a long time after I left I felt uncomfortable about Christmas and even now I just feel its highly commercialised and I can't see the point of it and I dread that I can't afford to buy nice presents for my boyfriend's family.But I guess its a good time to get together with family for those who have any. There aren;t any other holidays that put excessive demands upon me so I don't really mind them.

delilah

YUP......I love the holidays.....ALL of 'em!!!! 'Specially Christmas.....can't wait.

Delilah

mrsjones5

I love the holidays. The first Christmas after marrying my husband I got my first tree. I didn't think that my parents would come over but surprise they did. They werent too happy to see the tree. I didnt care. I was never baptised as a jw and my husband was never associated with the jws in anyway. So they couldnt do much about it except make little snide remarks.

Now What?

Comfortable? Hmm... How about excited! I want to try them ALL out. Hell, I am even thinking of celebrating Canadian holidays and I live in the US.

The only one I really not sure of yet is Superbowl Sunday. I need to pick a team that might make it there first.

Mysterious

I exited 2 months before my 18th birthday and my friends threw me a party to make up for the previous 17 years and I certainly had no qualms about that. Then I spent basically a year celebrating pagan sabbats which essentially corresponded to holiday customs. I always found it funny when I was following the pagan faith that my JW background gave me an edge on learning the meaning behind all the new customs I was following. And now I have no qualms about any holiday even though I am no longer pagan. I find it awkward because I dont always know what is expected of me, but those close to me understand what Ive gone to and are forgiving of that.

Country Girl

I did at first, but now.. NOPE!

CG

Doubtfully Yours

I don't feel 100% comfortable. However, I try to enjoy them and see the positive side of each holiday.

JW indoctrination will forever live deep in my mind's hard drive.

DY

Do you feel comfortable with celebrating the holidays?

Share this