Junction Guy
My mom blamed herself for so many years and finally last year I just up and told her "you were screwed from birth, you did the best you could despite all the lies you were taught
I can see me having to say something like that to my mum one day. She still talks to me, although I'm df'd, bu tin the two conversations I've had with her since my announcement a couple of weeks ago, it's been "are you sure you know what you're doing?", "it's the worst thing you could do, leaving Jehovah this close to the end" etc. I'm happy that she's still speaking to me, my two brothers aren't, but I can do without the sermons.
She has been a JW all her life, her parents were recruited as teenagers, and brought us up with the same teachings. None of us had a bad childhood, mum and dad were and still are great parents, but the JW teachings dictated the course of their lives, as they did mine till recently.