Pete Zhut, my jw wife and I stayed married almost 5 years but I lost that wife over working two jobs all the time. Those were hard days to make a living so I worked for electrical contractors during the day and stocked cans at a grocery store all night. 16 hours a day leaves only eight hours to sleep,shower,drive etc. Her mom died of cancer while we dated and her dad and older sisters were big time drinkers,I guess you could see that coming. She wasn't baptized and with no one pushing her she quit going. I provided a nice home,always had good food and 2 cars for us but was not home much to enjoy it. After a while she was hitting the clubs with her older sisters and then she was gone. I wasn't balanced at all in those days and had almost no social skills at all. But I could work and make money so that's how I survived her leaving and many other things. I was a huge neophyte in the world then. Not much call for public speaking in the world. But we had a corvette for me and a Mach one mustang for her and a expensive apartment to live in. Then she was gone. I've googled some and it looks like she never went back to the jws and has been married three or four times since. We have not been in contact since we split. In all fairness I wasn't an angel either. Everything was new to me then and the freedom was mind blowing. I got a Harley, did all the drugs of the day and drank a lot too. Made up for a lot of lost time. I didn't work two jobs anymore but never quit working hard. That is really what saved me. And I wanted all the toys and things I didn't have growing up. Good food,new clothes,cars motorcycles etc. I first became a journeyman electrician and then a Master Electrician by the age of 28. Very young to hold that license. I worked hard and took night classes so I could qualify and pass the test. My family had long since moved to Eastern Kentucky so they could serve where the need was greater so I had no contact at all. Life was good and fun. Worked hard and played hard. Concerts,motorcycle rides and camping with bike gangs,never joined but rode places with them a lot. Got a job working security at concerts with a promotion company and saw all the big bands of the time,high of course. Whoooo,what a time. Still had a lot of jw in me so I didn't get laid a lot.still treated girls like I might marry them and that wasn't cool. Dating was easy for me but sex was not. I think I was to serious too soon. Now I believe I fast tracked everything so I could get a life in before Armageddon came and killed me. I was driven. And always worked as much as possible. Then I decided to move south. I was living hard but missed my family so much and even my unfaithful wife. Lonely deep down I decided to move south so I could work my trade year around. In upstate we missed a lot of work in the winter.
