by minimus 32 Replies latest jw friends
Oh, Neon! That IS a happy ending! I'm happy for you Those are the stories romance novels are made of...
Editted To Add: You are right, Minimus. I can't believe they convinced me that being a sheep was a good thing. HA! My existentialist friends would giggle heartily over that one.
Edited by - OrbitingTheSun on 3 December 2002 10:8:15
OrbitingTheSun-
I ended up getting married as a JW to a JW at the age of 22. I married a woman who I liked a lot. I met her November, 1990 and got engaged in June, 1991. We were married by June, 1992.
To answer your question, I only married her because I wanted some stability in my life. I don't and have never loved her the way a husband loves a wife. I love her like a sister or a best friend. So, NO, I haven't TRULY loved someone since my first love. At least I have kept in touch with my first love. She is happily married and she just had her first child. We are good friends now.
My dignity and confidence.
Besides giving up our time and assets,is there anything that you particularly felt that you truly "gave up" to become or remain a Witness?
doing things and having them done to me...
When I started to study I gave up smoking. I had been on two packs a day for 30 years so was lucky to be still alive. I had seriously tried to give up about once every two years but never could.
I believed then (and still do) that I had Divine help to kick the habit. I know that I could never have done it without.
Then I gave up studying, after realising that "the truth" was not for me. Fortunately I did not confuse "the truth" with Christianity. I've never had a cigarette since so my studying will (hopefully) have a long term effect on me.
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I passed up the opportunity to get to know a really terrific "worldly" guy who I met through work. He was nice, attractive, a real gentleman, and we got along really well. He treated me so respectfully and surprised me with little gifts of appreciation from time to time. We worked together well. After I moved away for another job, he came to the area where I moved to for business and looked me up, and confessed that he had hoped we could become "an item". Distance was an issue at that time so I told him it wouldn't work for that reason. I would have felt like such a tool if I told him it was because I was really afraid of becoming "unevenly yoked with an unbeliever".
Even though we both moved on afterward, sometimes I still wonder what it would have been like to explore that relationship more thoroughly. *sigh*
Love, Scully
I gave up my family at 17 years of age... I'm only twenty folks, but they welcomed me back open armed... ^_^ I gave up all of my interesting friends for friends who COULD NOT EVEN WRITE THEIR OWN NAME! I almost gave up love, thank goodness she didn't give up on me. <=)
I felt we had to give up our wordly friends, moving away it was easy, but ,we just this summer made a special stop to see a long time ole friend, it was great.
gave up alot of birthdays and holidays and I'm thankful with a few surgeries our family had been through the blood issue was never a problem.
I gave up my childhood.
I gave up my education (which will haunt me until I die), the chance to participate in lots of fun activities in high school (cheerleading, clubs, dances, dating), the chance to travel on my own, my childhood, my teenage years, my common sense, my individuality, the chance to have "real" lifelong friends, etc. Not that I'm bitter, you understand
