The question you pose is an extraordinarly self-revealing one.
What I mean by that is this. I did not fully realize how weird, unusual, bizarre and crazy my life with JW's had been until I saw it reflected in the reaction I got from a normal person I was dating.
I will never forget it.
I was dating a lady who was a psychiatrist! She worked with abused children in a local clinic. She was a self-made person with a good income, her own house and a fine career. She was single, intelligent and well-educated.
Somehow one evening (I don't know how it came up) I started telling this lady (Kathleen) that in the days of Noah there were bad angels who came down to earth and materialized human bodies and began screwing women producing offspring who were giants........
The expressions on her face stopped me cold!!
I suddenly stepped outside my own body (to use a strong metaphor) and experienced an astonishing sense of sudden objectivity!! I SOUNDED INSANE!!
I clearly BELIEVED this shit!
It shook me up, I must say.
That was the real beginning of my true recovery from my indoctrinations.
Kathleen and I broke up soon afterward (need I say?).
I began examining all the other lunacies that had penetrated my belief system.
It was like I had been captured by Communists and filled with programming. The things I held to be true, possible or factual were like a steaming pile of dog manure.
It has been a long haul from there.
