Only by seeing the monster for what it is can you finely go to sleep in your bed, to see that it is only a shadow on the teddy bear. But when your a child at heart its much harder.
Will You Ever Be Able To Let Go???
by minimus 31 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
Do those "intellectual exercises" suggest some anger there, too? Methinks so.
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blondie
I didn't say no anger, only the dead are never angry. But I have no feelings of revenge or need to prove myself right. That is a big change in me. The old Blondie would never have subscribed to "No pearls before swine."
I think my 20 plus years experience in working through my feelings regarding my abuse and my alcoholic family helps me know the difference between healthy and unhealthy anger.
Blondie
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PinTail
Not completly, a life time is a long time I am fifty now and just now feel it is ok to think my own thoughts and say what I feel like. Sick huh.
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Carmel
It's a combination of situations that determine the answer. Obviously the longer the beast has you in its grips, the longer the wounds take to heal and the scars may remain for life. Luckily I escaped at the tender age of 14 so life has had its way of flushing the mental and emotional coolants in my engine. It takes a serious attempt to try to remember the feelings and ideas that coarsed though me over forty years ago. Although the majority of my family are still pimping for the FDS, even that part of my life has faded into the fog of ancient past.
New friends, education, new family, totally different religious orientation, all have combined to erase the remnants of the JW infection.
carmel
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minimus
"the JW infection".....I like it!
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SixofNine
When they pry my cold, dead fingers from the keyboard.
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JH
No, I don't want to let go. I'm like an employee who worked many years and wasn't paid.
God ows me eternal life, and the JW Org ows me friendship and respect.
I'm waiting.
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Dawn
I believe I have let go and moved on. However, I haven't forgotten what it was like - don't want to because then I could fall prey to the same type of situation. And I think I'll always be active on boards and such because there are other people out there that need to hear from someone on the other side - someone who can say that life is good.
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Tigerman
I was never a JW so in the sense in which you're posing your question I don't have anything to ' let go of.' However, as long as I have relatives who are in, I can't ' let go.'