Quillsky, what if she wanted a "Scriptural" divorce?
Perhaps I wasn't well-enough indoctrinated to understand what a "Scriptural" divorce is......
As I always understood it, if your spouse has sex with somebody else you may "Scripturally" divorce them. Not.... if you want a "Scriptural" divorce you have to go off and find someone to have sex with, then it's all fine and merry. How screwed up would that sort of doctrine be?
Jen, I empathize with your feelings of helplessness, being controlled and emotionally abused. I'm just going off on a tangent about an important element of your decision about the way to deal with it, sex with someone else.
From your opening post....
I left my husband and the JW's back in the summer.
That's a mature solution perhaps, but finding another man to have sex with as a "route" to that, not very clever, is what I'm saying.