JW's and Marriage

by Xena 29 Replies latest jw friends

  • Xena
    Xena

    I am wondering how many JW's stay in a marriage because they HAVE to? I mean I know there are happy marriages out there (somewhere I am sure), but I have run across several JW wives who are just WAITING on their significant other to commet "the ACT" so they can divorce them and move on with their lives.

    Divorce has become less of a taboo thing in the org, but it is still frowned upon and people that Do divorce, even on the scriptural grounds, are somewhat stigmatized.

    So I guess my question is what do you think the divorce rate would be if JW's could get divorced for ANY grounds with no repercussions?(beyond of course the normal ones all people have)

  • William Penwell
    William Penwell

    I think a lot of Jdubs are in unhappy marriages do to the fact most of those that were raised in the "truth" rushed into getting hitched. As for most Jdubs it’s just a way of legalizing having sex. I have heard of so many lately that have gotten married after knowing someone for a few months.

    Will

    "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
    Mark Twain

  • Xena
    Xena

    Kind of ironic isn't it?

    They rush into marriage for sex...and commonly end up with an unhappy marriage...usually without much sex!

  • refiners fire
    refiners fire

    I always remember this dub couple called Margaret and Jack when I was a kid.
    They had been married 20 years and couldnt abide each other.
    I always wondered how they were going to get thru another 1000 years together, and how they were ever going to be happy during the millenium.

  • butalbee
    butalbee
    just a way of legalizing having sex

    Interesting statement...

  • William Penwell
    William Penwell

    Also the fact that in a Jdub marriage one has to put up with having to share the marriage bed with the elders.

    Will

    "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
    Mark Twain

  • VioletAnai
    VioletAnai

    My mum has been so influenced by the policy of no divorcing unless adultery is committed, she doesn't even think dad qualified as an adulterer. Even though he gave her the clap on several occassions and g.warts....he even had a girlfriend he used to take me to visit! And yet, 14 years later, my mum still thinks she didn't have grounds and shouldn't have divorced him cause everyone talks about her...and now she'll never find anyone to marry.

    I could literally slap her sometimes.......I just remind her what it was like living with dad and she seems to calm down...momentarily until marriage is mentioned at the meetings.....and then the whole sorry situation starts over....


    It was a joke! And you fell for it like the fascists you are! - Rick - The Young Ones

  • William Penwell
    William Penwell

    I have a Jdub friend that told me her ex admitted to her that her committed adultery but later on denied it in front of the elders. Well she got a divorce but no a "scriptural" one. Same thing as my sisters ex. He would physically and mentally abuse his kids, so my sister ended up leaving and divorcing him. Again she doesn’t have a "scriptural" divorce, so she is not free to remarry. As a matter of fact elders have told her that her place is with her ex. ??? What’s with that? They are saying its OK to beat and abuse your family as much as you want but don't have any marital indiscretions. It sounds like to me a bunch of old farts that have nothing better to do but stick their noses where they don't belong...

    Will

    "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
    Mark Twain

  • Hyghlandyr
    Hyghlandyr

    I have often contemplated why my wife stays with me. I am fairly unskilled at being a husband. I dont work. No not that I dont like work, I do like work. It is just that I am lazy, and working means getting my ass off this couch....

    I dont do housework.

    I do bathe, usually anyhow.

    I generally masturbate and rarely have sex with her.

    My friends stay all the time...(see post on if the witnesses ever made you feel cared for)

    I watch my neices all the time.

    I cuss...

    I used to get drunk, say about 4 times a year since Ive been thirty. But recently I had a tequila drunk. Bleck. that shit is nasty. Now it is true that all alcohol tastes like crap to me anyhow. But at least the results are fun. And I never, even with the teq, get hangovers. But the teq drunk just wasnt fun. So I gave up drinkin..fuck it.

    Oh yes I mock her religion, online, in voice chat.

    I flirt..like crazy.

    I read porn, and I have a fairly nice collection of porn photos..

    I usually have one or another pic of another hot broad on my desktop, no not the porn stuff, didnt you hear me you moron I said I have neices over...sheesh some people.

    I run the phone bill up.

    The only bill I really pay is the cable bill, aka cable modem internet access boooyah!

    I do medical research for a living on occasion, as a lab rat, so I am gone sometimes weeks at a time.

    I am a racist, she is black.

    I am a sexist, and a misogynist...

    I am starting my own cult. She isnt too keen on reaping the benefits of it. Why a woman would not want naked women cleaning her house, and working in strip clubs and giving all the money to her and her husband is beyond me!

    I buy lots of role playing games and never play them.

    I dont take her out.

    I take myself out.

    I am at the moment infatuated with Aisha Tyler, and she knows it. Before that it was the broad from Tomb Raider, whats her name. Have you seen her lips! Man alive kill me now. I might have to switch back to her for a while.

    I practice many pagan customs...even though I am a nothingist...

    I degrade the bible. (Well actually the bible degrades itself, I just point out where)

    I used to thinks he only stayed with me for the pickle tickle now and again. And it is true when I am giving her a pickle tickle she is more compliant to my desires.

    But then I realized well feck, I pretty much suck at that too.

    And it definitely is not the 'except for adultery' thing becuase she knows she just has to say she is fed up and wam, bam thank you charlie, the dog and me is gittin it on!...true I prefer cats, since they are far sexier than dogs....but I dont have one readily available.

    So then why is she with me? My most recent conclusion is just that I am hyghly entertaining.

  • Beck_Melbourne
    Beck_Melbourne

    Hyghlandyr...your wife is a fool to stay with you...I can't believe she puts up with you buying role playing games and not playing them LOL

    Beck

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