My Dating horror= You can't have coffee at the mall without a chaperon???

by Witness 007 53 Replies latest jw experiences

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee

    In my early 20's I was dating a pioneer brother for awhile, a fact which was known by my whole congregation.

    He and I attended a JW party together - fruit punch and Bible games. At one point in the festivities, in front of everyone, Sr. Nosy Elderette DEMANDED to know when we were getting married. Everyone in the room was riveted - it was like we were on the witness stand. It was an excruciatingly embarrassing moment - we both stuttered something about "we don't know." Sr. NE said, "Well, you've been dating quite awhile and marriage is the purpose of dating!" It was mortifying.

    That sister felt that she had a perfect right, conferred upon her by the WTS, to question our intentions. She dead now.

    Good times.

  • BizzyBee
    BizzyBee
    Should I take a chaperon to the magazine store so I don't get porno? Or when watching cable T.V or going to the movies should I have a chaperon?

    How about when you're in the shower? You're completely alone with yourself, naked and soapy - you might masturbate.

  • REBORNAGAIN
    REBORNAGAIN

    Sis. Elderette? Hmmm....she no doubt was one of them, "Because my hubby is an elder, I have authority too!" *barf* I bet she would drill him for answers and to acquire the nitty gritty of so & so as well.

    LINDA

  • seawolf
    seawolf

    How about when you're in the shower? You're completely alone with yourself, naked and soapy - you might masturbate.
    What do you mean 'might' ?

  • REBORNAGAIN
    REBORNAGAIN

    My mother was taught certain things during her youth, that she past on to me, which I did not believe in, and therefore, NEVER past those things on to my kids. I'm talking, masturbation, oral sex etc. etc.

    If they think not being chaparoned is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad, then they would have to resort to sleeping in the same bedroom with us, sit on the toilet seat while we shower and pay their portion of the utilities since they would be living under our roof.

    LINDA

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    I've lost track of the number of times I've seen amorous couples en flagrante delicto atop the tables at outdoor cafes here in the Seattle area. Sometimes other patrons will politely ignore the proceedings, and other times there will be cheering and switch-hitting, depending primarily on how the Seahawks have performed in their most recent game. Driving rains also tend to dampen the mood a bit.

    Yes, the WTB&TS certainly has it's finger (that IS their finger, isn't it?) on the pulse of this contemporary wicked society.

    What I can't quite get my head around is why a person in his mid-thirties needs to be treated like he's a teenager in heat. How can you permit that? Has all self-respect been programed out of you?

  • aniron
    aniron

    I remember at one time reading about JW naturist/nudist camps.

    So how does that fit in with having a chaporone?

  • brunnhilde
    brunnhilde

    Huh, that's a new one to me, Aniron. Where did you hear about that?

    brunn

  • mjarka911
    mjarka911

    Maybe they felt the Martha Stewart linens in Kmart would prove to be too tempting.

    Unchaperoned couples + high thread counts = panky (of the hanky variety)

  • Scully
    Scully

    When Mr Scully and I started dating, we went out in public a lot. Nobody ever bothered us about having a chaperone, except when we sat together at the Kingdom Hall for the first time.

    After the meeting we were "invited" into the back room and told by the elders in no uncertain terms that it was improper for us to sit beside each other at the Kingdom Hall unless we were married or engaged to be married.

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