My blood boiled!

by baysixforme 30 Replies latest jw friends

  • Dansk
    Dansk

    A very warm welcome to you and your children, babysix. Fantastic first post. You've got real balls!! All the best with your studies.

    Love,

    Ian

  • SWALKER
    SWALKER

    Hi and welcome to the board.

    I'm so glad you finally left your abusive relationship. I know you must have gone through a lot of horrible times before you finally did. My cousin left her good JW husband and rented a small apartment for herself and son. Only he found her, shot her lock off the door and went in and proceeded to beat her half to death! It took her a full year to get back on her feet, literally. He wasn't disfellowshipped, the elders figured that she must have done something to set him off...The courts saw it differently and he served 6 years in prison. The entire congregation supported him and she was left to fend for herself. Needless to say she has never stepped a foot back in a Kingdom Hall. She was a very moral, sweet, 98 lb woman and still is...

  • nilfun
    nilfun

    Thanks for that post, Sunnygal41.

    I think I must just be misreading/misunderstanding Baysixforme's original post. I thought that the elder was aware that he was knocking on the door of a women's shelter. He shouldn't have that knowledge, IMHO. Too compromising of the women's safety.

    ((Baysixforme)))

  • Sunnygal41
    Sunnygal41

    Nilfun, I totally agree!!! I got the sense that he was just doin' the "Dub" thing.....(the strains of "From House to House and Door to Door" filling my cranium right now!!!) LOL!

  • Joyzabel
    Joyzabel

    Welcome to the board, bay.

    The WTBTs needs to be afraid of brave strong women who think.

    Joy

  • Winston Smith :>D
    Winston Smith :>D

    Welcome to the board.

    Your words to him were just enough. Too much and you would be giving him too much... respect, IMO.

    I life well lived is the best revenge.

    Especially when it is by a strong woman who has escaped a high-control group run to highly favor men.

  • itsallgoodnow
    itsallgoodnow

    welcome bay six. what a great story. that would have made my blood boil too.

  • Strawberryfieldsforever
    Strawberryfieldsforever

    Way to go bay!!! Welcome to the board. We need brave ones like you!

    Strawberryfieldsforever

  • pudd
    pudd

    welcome Baysixforme,

    hope you find support and encouragement here, as I have.

    you have my deepest respect for getting yourself and your children out of an abusive relationship.

    good luck with your studies!

    pudd xxx

  • Sassy
    Sassy

    Welcome to JWD baysixforme. I'm sorry that you had to go through so much in your life for you and your children. I'm glad you were able to get out and go on with you life. I have been in an abused situation with my first husband and I understand how you are not only treated like a 2nd class citizen when married, but also how this religion silently encourages abuses under their headship arrangement. Fortunately we can get out and move on. I hope you will stick around here and get to know us (and let us get to know you). This place is filled with awesome support.

    side note.. I have been to shelters for personal reasons, as well as did some temp clerical work for them in the past. Most shelters are not listed as shelters (for obvious reasons). We always had to promise to eat the address and never share it with anyone to try to keep it confidential. Although, yes, if a cong did know where a shelter was for women, it would be more appropriate to send a 'sister', but usually they probably are not even aware that it is something other than a large home... I never knew the place I went to was a shelter, even though I had driven by it many times. It no doubt was in that cong's territory... and someone would have called on it..

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