Are You Content With Your Life After Exiting JWs? (page 2)

steve2

Or is it what the Watchtower predicted it would be----utter misery?

No, the utter misery was what would have been in store for me if I had stayed. I will always thank the JWs for kicking me out. I lost a hell of a lot. However, I also gained a lot. My exit from the JWs has led me to a life filled with challenge, personal growth and startling empowerment. From "weak" to strong; from diffident to confident; from fear-filled to love-filled; from narrow-minded and reactive to open-minded and accepting.

lisavegas420

I'm content and very happy. Sometimes when I think about how happy and content I am, I wonder if maybe I'm in the eye of the storm.

lisa

Purza

More content than I could have ever dreamed of. I recent visited an old friend who happens to be a JW and all she did was gossip about others in the hall and told me that we have to rely on jehovah. WTF?

Purza

GoingGoingGone

I am happier and more content than I can ever remember being.... and I'm still in the process of fading!!

GGG

hopelesslystained

I most certainly am. And, just as I had expected I would be. Is it because "satan" in in control of me and I don't know it? Hardly, my mind is now clear of the jw controlled thoughts. I now make decisions without the oppresive yoke of the "Society". I was raised to be controlled by them, so it was not my choice, once I was able to dispell the ingrained guilt, I left, and learned how to smile. What a simple thing, can you imagine? I had to learn to smile. All those nice "worldly" people were not really going to be extinguished. That alone made me smile. I could then/now enjoy life with all it's ups and downs. To bad most of my known family live in tierney (sp?) that is my only sadness now. I feel so sad for the lives they have and are wasteing slaving the the JWs. If there truely is a loving creator, we will know for sure when the time comes and it will not misunderstand a true heart. I trust in that. Until then? Oh my, life is good and so am I !!!

tetrapod.sapien

when i dropped god in general, things got really easy to get over.

everyday that goes by, i love my life more and more.

TS

Es

i think i am????

es

fairchild

Honestly? I'm not sure. I certainly don't miss the stress of juggling two jobs, meetings, preparations for the meetings, etc... But there are times when I do miss going to the meetings. I miss going to the gas station on the highway after the meetings, buying hot dogs and piling them up with every condiment available. I miss taking one of the elderly JWs out for lunch once a week and wonder if anyone does that now, or if she is just left on her own. I miss the people I used to hang out with a lot, some of them have left a void. In a way, I miss "Jehovah", but then I remember how I "called upon" Him all the time and He never bothered to listen. However, I am happy, because it is my nature to feel happy. I don't get sad too easily.

upside/down

Better and better with each passing day...

u/d

seattleniceguy

Absolutely. The plane of peace I am on now is one I did not know existed when I was a Witness.

SNG

Are You Content With Your Life After Exiting JWs?

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