One last thought was something i wrote in my dis-ass letter. I explained to the elders that they were given the job as shepherds. If then a sheep fell into a hole, how would it get out unless the shepherd came down to save it? No-one came to save me. I was let down. I begged for help for years and never got so much as a telephone call.
Paul
I completely agree with what you say here, a good illustartion. Like your "shepherds" like mine made no attempt to get me out of my "hole" in fact they seem to be make the whole deeper.
If just one of them had come and said "Come on, we'll get you through this and back on your feet. We'll give you the help and support you need" I would probably still be a JW. But there idea of "help and support" was to split the family up, making my wife to get me to leave because I was a "spiritual danger" to the family.
I used to think I was the onlt one it had happened too. Then I came on this forum and others and discovered how many people had suffered the same. Far from being rescued from a hole the "shepherds" threw you into a deeper one.