How about you? Has your lifestyle drastically changed since you left?
I believe you were DF'd, right?
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No, I DA'd myself after a long period of inactivity. I was trying to just fade away, but some elders decided I was so horrible towards my dub step-family, that they needed to go after my jugular. At any rate, they ended up with egg on their face and I just got so tired of their trying to exercise any type of control on me that I sent in a letter along with copies and references to Watchtower articles and copies of Washington State law on abuse, showing what hypocrites they were.
In my experience, the dubs didn't encourage disciplining children, but vere horrified that the step-kids were disciplined at all. By this, I mean that I wasn't permitted to ground them without some idiot elder, or his elderette wife, interfering. The dub wife would agree with me when we discussed it, but when she went to the KH, would whine to an elder that it was mean of me to not allow her son to attend a ball game after the meeting, with other dubs.
Of course, this is the same wife, who shortly before we married, had an attack of conscience and squealed to the elders that we engaged in petting, to the point of mutual orgasm (if not to that point, why bother?) prior to marriage. Naturally, they formed a JC and in the brillant benevolence, decided to privately reprove us. What I still find ludicrous, is that her conscience didn't bother her enough to also report we engaged in oral sex prior to marriage. Selective conscience, I guess.
As to my lifestyle changing, I would have to say it has changed drastically, at least for right now. I have always been a laid back down to earth person. After Vietnam, I was a real mellow guy, always there for anyone and trusting. Since becoming a JW and especially marrying one, I now have high blood pressure, bitter feelings towards many and am very distrustful of most people. I can see there is no changing anything within this marriage and am just waiting on it to end.
Since I purchased the house we live in last year, I will await her to leave. If what I overhear from her monsters is correct, they should be gone in May.
Let them and the Watchtower have each other. They all deserve it.
If God's Spirit is filling a Kingdom Hall, how is it that Satan can manuever the ones within that Kingdom Hall at the same time?