by Vassago 5 Replies latest jw friends
Looking for people in the same boat as us!!
Looking for new friends here in Michigan.
Married couple from Macomb County both raised as JW's, married 16 yrs ago and stopped going to the hall about 10 yrs ago.
We are:
C = Female is: 34
R = Male is: 36
Looking for fun outgoing friends that are like us.
Thanks
C
Welcome Vassago, yes there are some here from MIchigan ,so i will send this back the the beginning so those can see it.
bttt
Hi, I'm in Michigan.
What helped you see your way out?
Emma
Hope this works this time. I can't find my other posting.
I was raised being a JW my father was an elder very strict!!!!
Went to
Never got baptized, I refused to, so the elders always gave me a hard time about the clothes I would wear (leather coat), I went to school to be a hair stylist and you expirment with your hair cuts and color all the time, they would always complain about that and say that I should not dye my hair and not cut it in weird styles, What would Jesus think if he showed up?? I had to piercings in each ear, they went on about that, it was always something.
Anyway, I finally moved out when I was 17 got married when I was 18 and had my first child when I was 19.
My husband was also raised a JW and was baptized, he went to Grosse Pointe Cong. Because I was not baptized, his elders hated us together and tried to keep us away from each other, afraid that I would pull him away from the congregation.
Well neither of us go anymore, I think it started of to be more because of the lack of love and compassion that the cong. have It felt more like they tried to control everything, college, work, friends, even relatives. They really wanted to keep you locked up in their own little area, their own little community.
Then we started reading more and it is like wow, our eyes were open to a lot of things that they hide, that they don't want anyone to know or think or read about.
I was a very unhappy child growing up in the lifestyle that I had to live not.
It is totally different now, we are happy, we have true friends, people who want to be with you and do stuff with you, not because that is what or who you get to chose to do things with (like organized in the halls).
It is a pleasure meeting all of you!!
THank you for such a warm welcome
A big howdy from Spartanland.
