How Did YOU Leave The Organization?? (page 4)

teela(2)

I was having another screaming with my father on the way to the Hall. Pointed out they slagged off other religions for saying one thing and doing another and here he was knowing that I thought it was crap but forcing me to go along. Dad slammed on the brakes (we were in the car) and said "if you don't want to go you can go home then" I opened the car door and walked home. The only ever attended one more time at an assembly in London (I'm from New Zealand) lasted all of 20 mins when I dumped my Mum and Dad and went to the pub to read the saturday papers. Picked then up latter to take them home and not a word was said.

blondie

I was a slow learner; I had to leave twice.

The light gets brighter, you know.

I faded so I planned it but as I said elsewhere, I was gone mentally long before I walked out the door.

Blondie

Redneckgurl

About 2 1/2 years ago, my husband started with some comments about how he felt and I knew he had been reading things on the internet. His brother (who is like a repressed teen who is going nuts at 30) had stopped going to meetings, and out of my concern for them, I checked out the computer to see what he had been reading.

I read and I was shocked at what I read! Then I did a search (I had done it before, but looking for "good" JW sites, I would quickly leave when I saw something Anti-JW) This time I read with the intent to learn. After that, I decided there was NO way I could turn back, I was already convinced that this was NOT the only way to live. I opened my heart to people and felt great!
We DA'd ourselves a year ago.

Happy freedom!

Swan

I stoped going. Like Valis, even alll of my "friends" that I knew for years didn't really care, nobody decided to visit me after that except for the cicuit overseer who wanted to remind me that I wasn't a ministerial servant anymore.

Not a a ministerial servant anymore? Well, duh!

And I used to think COs were so smart.

Tammy

DanTheMan

For over two years before I left I'd been suffering from depression and having real doubts about the org. last summer (July 2003) my depression got much worse and I attended my last meeting that month. There was no real decision, no agonizing, it really just sort of happened!! When I began to get better and my head began to clear I knew I couldn't go back nor did I want to. During the roughest time of my life I found I had real friends who got me through it and not one of them was a jw.

My experience almost exactly. My last year in I was having anxiety attacks, days where I couldn't eat a bite of food without vomiting, missing work, lying awake all night, etc. I didn't know the last time I attended a meeting that it was going to be my last one. I just stopped going for 1 week, then 1 week turned into 1 month, and lo and behold I didn't miss it at all, and the fog started to clear a little. My sister and bro-in-law were my friends who got me through. Telling them that I was sick of JW's and didn't want to be one anymore was like having a 1000 pound weight lifted from my shoulders.

crinklestein

I find it interesting that they are so worried about members leaving the org if they read anything bad about it on the internet. If there was nothing wrong with the org there wouldn't be anything bad printed about it, would there? If it was all lies then why is it that 99% if the sites about JWs are negative?

LittleToe

Crinkle:As my old man always used to say "the truth has nothing to fear". It's a shame that he won't confront me about my newfound beliefs...

Dansk

Panther/Tim Horton

Can you ever really leave? I'm starting to wonder. They have a pretty damn firm grip on people.

The grip is only as firm as you allow it to be. Believe me, Claire, the boys and I have really left! Life is opening up new vistas all the time. The JW nonsense seems a million years away. It's definitely a mental thing. Get your mind right and there's no hold at all. Looking back, it's hard to believe we ever were JWs. Watchtower uses fear. We used love. The hold has gone forever! Now to think about putting that Christmas tree up............................ Ian

koolkeithfl

i got fired (dfed)

minimus

Some will only leave if they get df'd. And many still wanna come back.

How Did YOU Leave The Organization??

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