RutherFRAUD,
Your story sounds similar to the story I read entitled, "The Spanking Room: A Child's Eye View of the Jehovah's Witnesses." After reading your posts more closely, I see that I was wrong for dismissing your advice as being overbearing and domineering. I apologize, and I am real sorry for the kind of childhood that you had to endure. As I was saying in my previous post, my wife had a fairly 'normal' childhood under the religion so she does not feel that this religion is a treacherous as it seems.
My wife has friends who are not a part of this religion. One of her friends is her assistant at the school where she teaches who is Catholic and another is a neighbor (well former neighbor) who goes to church and considers herself a Christian. The neighbor and my wife went to see the Christmas lights with their two little girls recently. My wife, along with some of the ladies at her school threw a surprise birthday party for her assistant. Since my wife spent the last five years basically living how she wants to, she is finding it difficult to completely fall in line with the Society's teachings.
This, I believe, is a good thing. As long as we live a good five hours drive from most of her family, things are good. When we go home to visit family, she kind of gets into 'uber dub' mode since the majority of her family is in the cult.