Parents became JWs 1953. I grew up under the old congregation regime, Congregation Overseer, Assistant Overseer and Theocratic Ministry School Overseer, along with assorted MS. Father DF 1956 reinstated 1962. I was baptized ?63. In 1972 was being groomed for MS position in new KH until I married a girl who was?gasp!!!?only an ?interested person?, that is to say she was ?just studying?, divorced too (another gasp!!) and smoked (gasp!, one more time). The road has been long and rocky but were still together. Parents divorced 1973, mother DF same year for ?smoking?, mother died in ?83. My dad remarried (non JW) and was ?inactive?(an old JW term) until he, God knows why, went back in ?93. He died in 2000 a staunch JW.
I left in early ?74 after the turmoil of the previous year. Wish I could say I never looked back, which would be untrue. It took a long time to get the WTBTS out of my system. I could of course go on and on, but I don?t think my experiences, as a JW, or the aftermath, are all that different from what others have gone through. Weather you?re a current JW, living in hell on earth, agonizing over what to do, or an ex Watchtower slave, making a life for yourself, we all have made the same journey, one way or the other.
That?s about it. Glad to be here. Hope to be of help.