My husband was the PO and only elder when I first married him and I HATED IT! Did not have a clue what it was like to be the wife of a PO. It was beyond horrible, the demands put on him and then passed down to me, I mean stupid demands that you would not believe. If the CO said jump you jumped. To tell you the truth even though my husband said he did not like the demands put on his time I think he loved it more then he will admit.
I would get phone calls at all hours demanding my husband do this or that even if he was not home and out doing other elder stuff the stupid JW on the phone was like "when he gets home you HAVE HIM CALLL ME the second he walks in the door!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was hung up on yelled at, screamed at. We had no marriage. The stupid religion came first. I was so young and dumb. I was 24 years old and my husband was 41. We had no date nights EVER. We never had any time together. No dinners together at night nothing. We would be leaving the hall after a meeting and one of the "friends" must of been stewing over something during the meeting and he or his wife would come up to us as we were getting into our car and say to my husband "you come with me we need to go back in and TALK!!!!!!!!!!! My husband would look at me and say stay in the car I will try to make this short the hall was too small for me to wait in as I could hear everything so I sat in the car even if it was freezing outside. Two or three or four or five hours later we would finally get to go home, our afternoon or evening goon. The hall we were in had problems it had them for years and the CO kept begging my husband to move there, finally about a year before we were married my husband gave in. The body of elders before my husband had been horrible, half to them left the area and half left the religion.
Looking back I wish I had walked. I had married a married man unknown to me. He was totally married to the GB and their demands. I was second or third or fourth on the list depending on who needed my husband more one thing for sure I was always last.
I was so glad to get out of that hall. When we came back from Bethel they made my husband PO right again. I was sick. But it only lasted about a month and there was huge power struggle in the hall and they took the PO ship away from my husband and gave it to the son of the King. There was this elder who had been in the area all of his life and he then became a CO and yad, yad, yad. He was head of the HLC and thought he walked on water. Anyway he truly is the King in our area. What he says is like Jesus speaking. Well he wanted his son to be PO and so it happened. Only his son did not go to the meetings. The son was head of the RBC and also owned his own company and he never was at the meetings. The "friends" in the hall were flipping out as were the other elders because he was NEVER at the meeting or out in service, so they took the throne away from him for about six months and gave it to someone else not my husband thank God. And then the prince started to go back to meetings just enough to regain power and he still hold title.
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