Well, I have a bit of a different stor(ies) because I left the JWs twice.
The first time I left, I was 13 or 14, got DFd with no proof, or witnesses, just rumors (fornication) and I went on to live a life af wild abandon and absolute hedonism. However, I still had some boundaries, although I was the one who set them (I've always been a flaming heterosexual). Other than being heterosexual, there weren't a whole lot of other boundaries, other than crimes like murder and rape. So I experienced a lot, and I travelled as I wished, around the US, and had plenty of money from my "pharmaceuticals" and "manufacturing" business, wink, wink. Eventually, after seeing many of my friends wind up in prison or dead, I decided it was time to go on the "straight and narrow", and my girlfriend at the time was happy I did so. One day, after talking about religion, (she was Catholic), she wanted to go to a JW meeting. I thought "alright" thinking we'd just go for one and that would be it. The talk was about marriage, and since we loved each other, we left the meeting and started talking on that subject. Within a month we were pretty regular at the meetings, and married (duh). I went to College and got my Graduste Degtree while working to support my growing family and getting to most of the meetings.
Fast forward to around 8 years ago. I'd become a Ministerial Servant (and the Elders often pleaded with me to become an Elder) when I definitely came to realize that the JWs were Apostates. I tried my best to show them, continously, how they kept going beyond the things written, and got a repuation for doing so. I kept going to meetings, trying to chnge their apostate ways.To make a long story short, I stopped going to meetings about a year before I ended up divorcing my wife (she had become a brainwashed robot, and couldn't be helped, (Oh, how I tried and tried)), got DAd improperly, (again, with no evidence) and then after dating for quite a while, found a wonderful girlfriend who I came to live with to this day. When I left the JWs this time, it was for good, and I've set a lot of boundaries, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as found in the Bible. I do my best to live my life in accord with those teachings, they are my boundaries currently.
