Hey, yinz!
Just poking my blue head in once again to say hello. I haven't been by much, but I have been perusing a little bit, just to keep tabs on all y'all.
I just wanted to say to all you newbies (and new lurkers, I'm sure) that life really does get much, much better when you leave the WTS. There are dreams you don't even know you have because the WT has convinced you that having them is a sinful inclination. But they aren't. They are the normal, healthy life choices that you are entitled to make for yourself!
Like having kids. Who to marry. Going out on fun dates with a member of the opposite sex. Celebrating holidays with your family. Getting a college degree and a job that doesn't demand more than 40 hours a week, or alternately, a great job that you love but takes a bigger chunk of your life. And sweet loving with somebody who isn't praying at the time, pretending to be asleep, or desultorily "rendering the marriage due." Sitting at home and catching BOTH simpsons episodes at 6 and 7 on the WB because you don't have to get the kids ready for meeting.
Even having babies is a choice that the WT tries to make for you. Stop! Break free! I'm doing things right now that I never even knew would be important to me, because the WT had swollen in my psyche like a pimple in my brain. Sure, popping it hurt, but after my vision cleared I suddenly could see how awesome a gift we have all been given!
A little determination now, good friends, and doors will open up for you that you can't even imagine right now!
CZAR