would you apologize in writing to your children for raising them in the truth?
i've apologized verbally........ none of them is going to meetings any longer...... my husband and i have been drifting away for several years..... .
i was raised a witness, and thought we were doing the right thing.
yeah I have apologized to my kids too.. you know we did what we thought was right.. just as possibly our parents did for us..
We thought we were saving their lives.. if we had a clue what it was really about, we would have given them different childhoods.. ones with some freedoms outside the box..
but we can't change the past. I don't know that my apology meant anything to my kids.. In some ways it probably did more for me..
i am white, my husband is black.
he is not baptized but goes to all the meetings and is in the school.
a few months ago i read the following info which i just copied from vinny's thread.
Awake and Watching... I'm so sorry about what you are going through.. him being out all night doesn't sound right .. my recent relationship had something similar and I know I never thought good things were happening during those hours..
I'm sort of sorry to see that race has been brought into this thread though. There are a lot of good black men out there... and there are plenty of controlling non black men. Personally I think the WTS breeds them.... we're taught the man is the head of the house and the good christian wife obeys her husband.
at any rate, I wish you strength in whatever you need to get to where you need to go or be!
started one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.
so what say yee to this?
here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.
HITCH
DELIVER US FROM EVA
well almost anyway cuz i'm still here.
all the kids have left for school and hubby has gone to a doctor appointment.
i think i have maybe an hour to myself.. this coffee is good.
I wish I was home and had the place to myself... sigh..
and I just bought a one way ticket for my youngest to move in (in 2 weeks).. so there will be less and less chances of alone time.. sigh
4am in the uk, and i was jolted awake by a dream about my mother dying, she is not in good health.
i felt overwhelmingly sad that if this happens, she will die in sadness over me.
and also very upset because she is my mum and i want her to love me and be interested in my life and that just isn't the case any longer.. i realise i am 'luckier' than some on here because at least she speaks to me.
some may have it worse then you do.. but there is nothing wrong with feeling bad for your own situation. you do not have the relationship we naturally should have.. and your dreams tap into that...
i have a site wherein i have mentioned that i am having an apostofest at the burning man festival.. i recieved this letter re: the apostafest..... angry-at-the-society ex-jw's, .
to which i replied:.
i assume both!!!
I thought it was a great reply too..
and so very true
masterbation thread?
avoid parents/friends/elders finding out who or what the situation is?.
do you feel bad for "lying" to ones on here to protect who you really are?.
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I don't hide... my name might not be there but my real picture is
i was laying in bed and trying to drift off to sleep.
all of a sudden i had a vision of my father building our dining room table.
we moved when i was four and this was at our old house so i must have been pretty young.
its hard.. I think it gets easier with time, but we always long for more..
(((HUG))))
the watchtower continues to encourage jw parents to alienate their children from people who are not jws and therefore discourage a more balanced view of the world and the people in it!.
september 15th watchtower, 2007 says on page11:.
'of course, our children's attitudes can be influenced both for good and for bad.
lets face it, we all are stunted from being raised in this enviroment. We've all had to compensate for it, being out in the real world.
