Hi Marty, welcome to the board. Hopefully we can help you resolve your issues.
Cellist
new guy from toronto.
just enjoying the posts.
i haven't been to a meeting in years, i was baptisted 1990. it seems like yesterday.
i havent been around much the past 3 or 4 months.
i plan to be try and post more now.
the problem is that i see so many new people here that i dont know and dont think there's any way i could catch up with who's who just by reading.
yesterday i found out from my husband who works with my mom's neighbor, that my sister is pregnant with her third child.
lately my husband and i keep getting this feeling that something is up with the family.
what i am really not understanding is .... .
there is a catch-22 that can trip you up at the local kingdom hall.
if you receive "counsel" from an elder about any behavior at all and you "resist" or question the counsel you can be accused of having a "spirit of rebellion".
so, you have to either shut up and comply (with even the most ludicrous and ill-founded suggestions) or answer back and be chastised and "marked".
i havent been around much the past 3 or 4 months.
i plan to be try and post more now.
the problem is that i see so many new people here that i dont know and dont think there's any way i could catch up with who's who just by reading.
yesterday i found out from my husband who works with my mom's neighbor, that my sister is pregnant with her third child.
lately my husband and i keep getting this feeling that something is up with the family.
what i am really not understanding is .... .
i studied with the jw's for two years and some time this coming week i will be making the "phone call" to tell carol my friend, that i do not want to study any longer with the jw's.
i don't know why i let them into my kitchen to begin with, except there was something about her and i don't make friends well with other women, most of my friends are guys, but carol could tell a irish yarn that made you laugh and feel good.
she made me feel safe and she was fun to go shopping with and talk about problems too, she was like the mother i never had.
i've been reading these forums for a while.
now i've posted, it would seem polite to introduce myself.
i am not nor ever have been a jw, but my wife was interested throughout her life, and had some attendance as a teenager.
i am one confused dude and need serious therapy.
leaving is very tough.
my family are in a life and death race to save me before "the end".