I am not a JW. I have never been a JW. I tripped over this forum whilst participating in a little harmless internet forum raiding.
I am a 48 year old man with a wealth of life experience who married a much younger woman who had been raised in a formerly devout but now mostly non-meeting attending JW family.
I have a couple of tertiary degrees in engineering and some undergraduate credits in psychology. I did a little research on this cult (and it is a cult, all religions are. Cult + time = religion) because my wife was estranged from her family as a result of deciding to make her own way in the world. I know that it is important to resolve these kinds of things if one is to grow and mature so I encouraged her to try to get connected with the family. Unfortunately, she did so too well and has become a zealot of a different sort by becoming a self-absorbed career yuppie. The imprinting, dogma and general brain washing is pervasive and taints the former JW's thought patterns even if they don't go back to the "Truth".
We are now separated and I would like to say to those of you having doubts, get the hell out now. And don't come back. I know it's hard to leave that support base because the insular nature of JW life has not equipped you for life in a complex world vastly different to the simplistic and regulated church, but you will never know joy by trying to ignore your own questioning nature.