Were you caught, did you confess, or did you run?

by sass_my_frass 27 Replies latest jw friends

  • Chia
    Chia

    Love11, thank you for sharing that story. Stories like yours and my own personal experience are the very reason I will NEVER meet with the elders again. I think that generally their minds are probably made up anyway, they just want to see if they can get some juicy details. In your case, there was nothing to report, and telling the truth worked against you. You were probably screwed from the start. If you had said you did something, they probably would've disfellowshipped you anyway. They told the truth, believed you lied, even if you did lie you were wrong by spending the night there, and you're disfellowshipped. It's such a loving system that it makes me sick.

    I will NEVER let them have that much control over me again.

  • itsallgoodnow
    itsallgoodnow

    I haven't been caught (yet), I'll never confess, but I might run! Welcome sass-my-frass!

  • talesin
    talesin

    ah, never mind.

    Let's just say, all three.

    t

  • MerryMagdalene
    MerryMagdalene

    I was a faithful 4th gen JW who fell for a recently reinstated JW my own age (22). We told my mom we wanted to get married, she called in an elder for backup and they told us we couldn't. They became so insulting in trying to discourage us I finally said we weren't asking for their permission we were asking for their help so as to get things off to a good start. They refused to help so we went to an elder in b/f's cong to see if he would study family life book with us. He wouldn't (didn't want to offend other elder and my mom). So we eloped and, after attending mtgs for a while, eventually distanced ourselves from everyone.

    I began to more fully explore the unanswered questions I'd always had about the God and the religion of the Bible and decided I could not return to being a JW nor could I call myself a Christian.

    Went through some real rough times, made a lot of mistakes, survived. Elders heard some rumours about me after I left my husband, asked me if I still considered myself a Witness (answer:no). Then they questioned me about my personal life which I said was none of their business. But they guilted me into a vague confession so that my ex would scripturally free to remarry.

    Was DFed when i refused to formally DA myself.

    ~Merry

  • lucky
    lucky

    I ran. I had two episodes of falling in love with the "wrong" person. The first episode involved numerous meetings with the elders during which we both lied, and evenutally resulted in me moving away and ending the relationship, but under the guise of "moving where the need was greater." I was racked with guilt for years after that (especially since I was pioneering) and terrified that we would be found out (even though the affair had ended). But I just couldn't bring myself to confess and break up his family (he was married with young children), even though I thought I'd probably die at armageddon for my evil ways. The second time, years later, I ended up innocently spending the night at a worldy boy's house, talking (I was having serious doubts about the "truth" by this point, but was still in good standing and auxiliary pioneering). It was a saturday night. Nothing physical happened, but I knew that I would be in big trouble sunday morning with my three zealous roommates, so while they were all at the meeting, he and I borrowed a truck and snuck into my apartment and took all my stuff and left a note saying that I was having personal issues. It was a mad dash, and needless to say, resulted in complete panic on the part of my roommates, the elders, and my mom (who was in another state). I disappeared off the face of the planet for couple weeks (living with my "boyfriend") and hiding my car, but alas, I could not afford to quit my job and I was eventually tracked down at work and pulled out by the elders (my boss wasn't too happy). I wouldn't give them any details about anything, including where I was staying, and told them I just needed some time to myself to think things over. I never went to another meeting and the sense of relief I felt after leaving was ENORMOUS. I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

  • Swan
    Swan

    Basically I told them in a letter, "I don't want to be a Jehovah's Witness anymore because I'm taking a new direction with my life." But instead of accepting that I had just told them what I was going to do and I didn't give an F about what they did about it, they still tried their damnedest to convince me otherwise.

    This went on for about six weeks before they finally accepted things and quit bothering me. In the meantime, it got very crazy. They just couldn't accept the changes in my life and that I was just walking away from their organization.

    To appease my dear mother, who was really struggling with all of this, I agreed to meet with the elders. They quoted scriptures in the Mosaic Law to me. I told them to please use the New Testament as we were no longer under Mosaic Law because of Christ's sacrifice. They said they had even got the CO involved and wrote to Bethel. "Fine," I said. "I would be interested in what they have to say." Not because it would change my mind, but just because it gave me some more time to help prepare my family for what was coming.

    Their final response was some esoteric BS about some obscure Greek word, which almost made me laugh out loud. That was all they had? Was that the best they could come up with? They took their best shot and it was a BB pellet!

    I felt more empowered than at any other time in my life. The men behind the curtains where just humbugs. Good riddance!

    Tammy

  • Sweetp0985
    Sweetp0985

    I confessed...they had been trying to get in contact with me for the longest...and finally one day i was like...man f**k it....had the lil committee meeting....they tried to make me feel bad...but in that point in time...i really didn't care....told them do what they had to do...which was df me....never looked back...had a guilty feeling every now and then..but never tried to get reinstated...and after finding this board and a few others...i'm never going back!!!

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    I stomped out. And, as I stood outside of the Kingdom Hall after my last Sunday meeting (at which my son, who had to come to that meeting in a wheelchair because he had a rare virus, was totally ignored by all but 3 of the 150 people in the Hall), I took a deep breath and decided that if living forever meant having to be around these sorry, hypocritical, unloving robots, then never mind. I decided to enjoy every minute of every day that I have in this life, and leave the rest in God's hands.

    Next to marrying my husband, that was the best decision I ever made.

    Nina

  • rebel8
    rebel8

    I opted out. I was too afraid to break any of the JW rules--a coward or gullible, I guess.

  • Purza
    Purza

    First time: I was caught, confessed and then promptly DF'd and my life as I knew it was destroyed.

    Second time: I was caught, ran like hell and was never DF'd. Now I am happier than ever.

    Purza

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