Back in the early 80's I was dating a sister from the southern part of Illinois, and I remember how many ladies were divorced.
Fast forward to the current day,,,,,,,,
I was trolling on facebook last night, and I hit the mother lode, one old friend (divorced) of mine has a son who still keeps in contact with most of these ladies that he grew up with.
And guess what ?
Most of them got married, had kids, and are now single. Yet after reading some of their comments to each other I was struck by the common thread of how bitter they all are under the surface.
One made the following statement ,
It's better to have loved and lost.......than to have stayed with an idiot.
Her husband was a great guy, drank a bit, liked to go fishing, but was a nice person.
Theocratic things were not that important to him.
Yet these ladies all are now so spiritual ! They talk about how wonderful the meetings are, the conventions coming up, and service are just the greatest gifts ever !
It seems that many of thse ladies could not make it thru life with a literal, fleshly, man.
So they wrap themselves up in the belief that jehovah is the only one who understands them, and no doubt this soothes their souls but I found this belief so very prevelant with so many of their comments.
I also noted that none of my old witness guy friends from that area are on their friend lists, yet these guys are on FB.
So what is your take on this, do people wrap themselves up so much in the jw world and belief system that they actually drive their spouses away when something goes wrong ?
I was shocked at the amount of women who were a FB clutch, and were just feeding off each persons problems, and basing everything on their view of what this religion "thinks" is correct.
Reminded me of the movie "The Stepford Wives"
Ugghh, how dirty I felt after reading all that garbage, I sure am glad I got away from that when i was younger !