Or is it what the Watchtower predicted it would be----utter misery?
Are You Content With Your Life After Exiting JWs?
by minimus 26 Replies latest jw friends
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damselfly
I am content with my life right now.
It would be nice to not have to worry about money and just be done with school right now, but overall it's good.
The only misery I had post leaving the JW's was inflicted by them inforcing the shunning rules on my family towards me.
I've gotten much further in life by leaving, then I would have ever if I had stayed.
Mentally and emotionally I am healing.
Dams
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freedom96
I could not even imagine still being a witness. Life is good........ just need to get a couple of loved ones to see what the WTS is really about, and then I will be satisfied.
Life is not horrible like they say outside the organization. It is just fine, and great to have real friends too.
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mrsjones5
Or is it what the Watchtower predicted it would be----utter misery?
It would have been utter misery to stay...that reminds me, I should call my mother.
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talesin
Most of the problems/issues in my life are about other childhood abuses, and not the JWs. However, if I had stayed in the religion, I would never have dealt with said issues. I am more than content,,,, I am ECSTATIC that I left the JW, because as one of them, I would have buried the trauma, and lived a life with no joys, no sadness,,,, and would have become a true "Stepford wife" in the JW tradition.
Le Chaim!!!
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Wolfgirl
I am happier than I've ever been in my life. The misery was when I was a JW. I am at peace with myself (mostly) and life in general now. Life is good. :)
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itsallgoodnow
Chaos, misery, depression. Everything they said would happen, happened times 3.
What's my name? Yeah, that's right -- its all good.
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Undecided
I'm happy with my life now, I just wish there was more left to enjoy. It ends too quickly. Almost all the people I knew when I was young are dead, especially the ones who were a few years older than me. I see some of the ones I knew at work in the new Super Walmart, but can't remember their names. I hate that my mind doesn't work as good as it did when I was younger, but come to think of it I couldn't remember names back then very well either.
Ken P.
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Apostanator
Not as content as I would like it to be. However, getting better all the time.