A new twist

by ESTEE 6 Replies latest jw experiences

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  ESTEE

  I've been disfellowshipped for about ten years yet I rack my brain trying to turn that "shunning" stuff around into something more positive and uplifting.

  Shunning sounds like --- like --- so final. It's what we were taught to dread our whole lives.

  Well, for someone who was raised to be co-dependent with the borg, for me to allow myself to get disfellowshipped and leave because I had some independent thinking going on --- maybe --- just maybe my kids don't talk to me any more because my leaving the JWs has left them speechless!

  I like it!

  Any comments?

  Love to all

  ESTEE
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  changeling

  You sound like a perfect candidate for "the happiness crowd"!

  changeling
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  megsmomma

  That certainly sounds better that we are as "good as dead" to them!
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  jgnat

  So true! Left them speechless and with a facial twitch which renders them incapable of looking you in the eye!
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  Happy Harvester

  Yes.

  Dumbfounded.

  Non-plussed.
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  tribalgirl

  I am not DF'd, but I might as well be to all of the people that I used to know in my old congregation, they never look me in the eye and rarely say hello.

  So, I like it. It makes sense, they don't know how to handle a person who speaks their mind and knows what they want...yeah, speechless works for me.
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  ESTEE

  Nice to see all the great healing going on within this forum.

  Thanks everyone!

  Love you all,

  ESTEE