Hey hey Lion's Den, good to have you on board. The more the merrier and I look forward to reading about your perspectives on things.
HI! im new here...
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LouBelle
A very warm welcome OutOfTheLionsDen - apologies for my delay in welcoming you to the board. Shunning is un-natural. I'm fortuante in that over time I got very used to it and those (including family) have become as strangers to me. It is sad but true.
I hope that you will continue to embrace life and all it has to offer. Be strong and rely on each other.
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innerpeace
Welcome, sorry your family is shunning you esp. since you aren't DF'd, is this an unwritten rule now or something? Take comfort that you and your husband are on the same page and lean on eachother for support. Looking forward to hearing your story.
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outofthelionsden
Hi innerpeace we are not Df'd but in the jdubs minds some one Inactive = not interested = self disassociation and there are many articles that say that someone who disassociates is to be treated as a Df'd person
- lv pp. 207-209
- How to Treat a Disfellowshipped Person
- principles on this subject apply equally to those who disassociate themselves from the congregation.
very sad but true
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cantleave
Welcome to the real, cult free, world!
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Jaidubdub
Welcome, I look forward to reading yr story...
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outofthelionsden
Mr.Flipper you've got pmail
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skeeter1
Welcome to our worldly lair. LOL.
I was born in. What I found out after leaving the Truth, is that I don't have a "normal" to return to. Others who were in the world before, have that to latch back onto. So many times, I feel like a stranger in a strange world. But, then I tell someone a story about my past and I think, "My, that JW life was wierder (i.e. fu**** up) world then the real one."
Skeeter
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Gojira_101
Welcome outofthelionsden!
My heart goes out to you and your family. Your story of your family shunning you is almost exactly like mine. I haven't been df'ed or written a DA letter, but just because I just stopped going to the meetings. My parents had started to express doubts about the JW's and our family called them apostates and shunned them, then because we were "close" with my parents we got condemned as apostates although we had just stopped going.
I know it's hard, but as time goes by it will get better, the hurt will still be there, but you will just beginning to accept it.
Peace and love to you and your family.
Gojira
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outofthelionsden
Hi skeeter1! I know what you mean the year before we stopped going i remember telling my husband crying that i didn't feel i was part of the witness world or the world, i felt like a stranger to everything. i grew up with them telling me not to have any contact with a worly person unless your preaching to them so its been interesting trying to connect with people. but our worldy friends have been supportive of our new life