by MsMcDucket 17 Replies latest jw friends
I don't mean by the R&F dubs, but loved ones and friends? And do you regret leaving the organization because of this?
I am being shunned by twin daughters. I had all ready left the organization before they got baptized. They just started shunning me last year. I don't plan on going back into the organization.
I am being shunned by three daughters and my parents who both died shunning me. But still glad I am free from the borg.
I'm a barely active JW and my cousin's wife doesn't invite me to any gatherings she hosts. She also didn't invite her brother when he was inactive. But she acts fake friendly when she sees me.
Yep, by scores of 'em! (all relatives)
I don't get shunned by friends because i've realised I never had any!! To a dub a friend is merely an associate or acquaintance.
My two former study conductors (spent 2 close years with each) no longer speak to me because of how I feel about the wts and religion/god in general. It hurts.
my parents who both died shunning me
That's my worse nightmare, that I will die while my girls are shunning me.
My family goes five generations deep in the borg. Hundreds of relatives, bethelites and circuit overseers among them. Less than a handful of my relatives will speak to me, even at the time of deaths in immediate the family.
Even so, I am more grateful every day for my freedom; and even more grateful for the freedom of my child, who has a life I never could have dreamed of as I wasted away in the KH three times a week, slowly dying inside.
essie
I don't get shunned by friends because i've realised I never had any!! To a dub a friend is merely an associate or acquaintance.
This is a wonderful point, that I have learned. It's a tough one to swallow, but absolutely true. When one looks at it that way it easier to get past it I think. Though painful.
As far as relatives go - my Mom and my Brother both died before we came out. My only other relative [on my side] is a cousin who was my best friend for 30 years. He shunned me for the past year and over. Then out of the blue he called a month or so back and we spent the day together. But I really think he might have known the elders were about to 'close in' on me, and maybe he wanted to have a last visit of some kind before that happened. As it turns out the elders called me and tried to entrap me just two weeks later, so who knows?
My wife's family shuns me, but not wifey as much.
I suspect that the curtain is about to get drawn on me soon now - I am just thankful I do not have many relatives in the borg now.
Jeff
((((Group Hug!))))) How in the heck did this happen to us? It so strange to me.
Me, by all family and old friends. I was expecting it and held off as long as I could. I'd do it again, and far earlier, if living life over; I'd rather have my real life than the game I had to play to keep them in it.
