HOW LONG ............???????????

vitty

How long did you phisically stay in the truth, after you had mentally or emotionally left?

And how much was the reason you stayed was cos you didnt want to be WRONG! (pride is a terrible thing)

Doubtfully Yours

Been there physically since 1995.

It's a long and drawn out fade for me.

DY

blondie

Hey, vittvin, how many times does a person have to slap you in the face before you realize you have to stay out of slapping range?

Just an illustration....

When it gets uncomfortable enough, you leave. It took us awhile but it's been 3 years for me and 2 1/2 years for my husband since we stepped inside a KH, an assembly, or a convention, or a JW do like a funeral or a wedding.

I don't see the need to play their game and DA myself. So far they leave us alone after we weathered the first 6 to 9 months of phone calls. We don't live in the territory so it is hard to "spy" on us by just driving by.

You find out how conditional the love and friendship are. After awhile you wonder if you ever knew what true friends were.

Make new friends, find new interests, and the old ones won't matter any more.

Love, Blondie

candidlynuts

i think i had emotionally left long before i quit attending.

and since i left i only got a couple of elder calls during co visits for the purpose of satisfying their paperwork.

so its not been hard at all to leave the wtbs behind.

ozziepost

How long did you phisically stay in the truth

IMO a dub is a dub whilst ever they use the expression "in the truth".

I vote for a "Troof-less" world!

Ozzie (permanently upside-down class)

vitty

DY

you have my sympathies.

I have family in the truth, but we dont live near them so they dont know we dont go anymore.

After we learn the truth earlier this year, we just couldnt physically go again, although I was willing when I visited my daughter last month

I ve been in 20 years, I was brought up one till I was 7 or 9 then my mum fell away

I really suffered cos I still thought it was the truth, all through `75

Then when I was 24 I went back in, after a YEAR I knew there was something seriously wrong with the beliefs. but thought it was me, so year after year, I continued hoping in time time it would get better, it never did. I still thought it was the truth

I felt I couldnt let my kids down, and besides now, I had brought half my family back in, mother, sisters, their children, my husband in the truth. How could I now say I had doubts, everyone has doubts sometimes, right.

As a family we got deeper and deeper, or as they say more in the middle of the cong

Until I came here, read a few books, I realized it wasnt me it was them

But what a price ive paid, my daughter is still in.

So to answer my own question, I think 19 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hows that for denial

Incense_and_Peppermints

i didn't deliberately "fade"... but for about a year the questions kept mounting and going unanswered and i got offended one day when i approached the wife of an MS who i had always admired and i told her i had these questions and she told me i was spiritually weak because i had all these doubts, which hurt because it wasn't true, not to mention i was so clean and pure i squeaked. i mean, i didn't even think bad thoughts. anyway, family circumstances changed which caused us to have to move, and the same time i came of age and thought wow i can really leave now if i wanna, so i moved out of the house, neighborhood and KH when i was 18 years and two weeks old and never looked back...

jwbot

I am not sure I was ever emotionally or mentally there. I never felt any connection to Jehoover, never prayed as a little girl (sincerely). I do not know. But I think the biggest turn was when I was a teenager. I got out physically when I went off to college.

Carmel

The day I was baptized I knew it was BS, suspected it for a while. I was barely 12 yrs old, by the time I was 14 I left home and was permanently gone by 15. Forty five years later, it still ranks as the best decision I ever made.

carmel

Incense_and_Peppermints

I got out physically when I went off to college.

hooray! i luv hearing people say they went to college. it's like saying "so there"

HOW LONG ............???????????

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