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i am a baptised jw and am wanting to disassociate myself.
i am looking to find someone who has left this org to give me some idea on the letter to write and how they dealt with their friends who shunned them
welcome,
I posted my d/a letter last week, just stating that i officially didnt want to be know as a witness and then stated why. With the shuning bit I know exactly how you feel. I have a 3 year old son, and both my parents are in the truth and it kills that they can turn there back on us.
Hope it all goes well
during class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
hehe these are fantastic, I can relate to many of them.
"You know you a jw teenager when your not allowed to watch M rated movies (15+) until your like married."
hey guys,.
this should be fun.
i just sent my jc a letter saying: (as best as i can remember).
hey Dave,
hope it all goes well. I just sent my dissacciation letter last week, i specifically asked the elders including my father not to contact me, but i still shuddered everytime my phone rang. Its like they have this hold of us still. Needless to say my dad did call and then said the elders are all worried about me and to expect some phone calls coz they want to rescue me. ( I knew i should have gotten a caller id phone )
or have you shed that polyester portion of your personality?
might that personality trait truly been authentic?
was that really who you were, or a cover because we were required to be so civilized?
I used to be so naive, and have such a conscience. I felt like my dad was always watching my behaviour, when i was the good little pioneer daughter. Now i dont give a damn, my conscience has totally gone out the window, i will practically give anything a go once and if i like it i will do it again. I feel so much freedom its unreal
luv ya
es
NAIVE
i remember coming home from a meeting one evening in a spiritually heightened mood and seeing all these lights dancing around in the sky.
strangest thing i ever saw.
i said to my wife ?quick inside?
I remember after 9/11 thinking this is the end, its gona happen anytime now. I was so relieved when a a couple of years later we are still here
es
hello to everyone, my name is esther and i am from australia.. i was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw.
i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.. i just wanted to say hi.
this is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,i'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them.
Hello all,
Well much development has happened over night, I am sitting at the computer writing my dissociation letter. Last night the elders went to my ex husbands house last night and pretty much told him that they are goin to disfellowship him. Just after that I got a phone call from dad (elder), to cut a long story short, I am getting married again to a non believer, my family know I dont believe in the truth anymore, but are very naive to what i get up. Anyway my dad offered to look after my son while my future hubby and I go away for a honeymoon. Then I got a phone call last night saying that he cant look after Blake (my son) because its not right. I am so fucking sick of the stupididty and the fact that everything comes first over family......argggggg
es
hello to everyone, my name is esther and i am from australia.. i was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw.
i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.. i just wanted to say hi.
this is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,i'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them.
heya,
Birthdays are great :). I celebrated my first birthday last year at the age of 25. It was great other than the fact i had a severe hangover the next day......suffice to say this year will be a little tamer. My sons birthday is next month and im so looking forward to it. Christmas is fantastic too (expensive) my 3 year old would say goodnight to the christmas tree every night.As this was my first proper christmas i still had little niggling guilt but im getting over it very quickly.
love to hear some stories.
luv ya
es
hello to everyone, my name is esther and i am from australia.. i was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw.
i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.. i just wanted to say hi.
this is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,i'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them.
Hi guys
Thanks for such a warm welcome, maybe we could teach this to many in the congregations lol.
Hey there uncle bruce, where in South Australia are you from? I lived there for a bout a year. I actually met my ex at the District Convention there when i was visiting.
Have any of you watched "The Village" i was thinking of gettting many copies and sending them out to the elders.
I guess i will tell you a bit of my story, i was very naive in the truth, my father (elder) hardly ever studied with us so i dont actually know alot even though i was in in until i turned 23. My father wasnt and still isnt a very understanding father, he wasnt one of those fathers who let my brother and I choose if we wanted to be a jw, it was just expected of us.
As we grow older my dad was always checking up on us when we were out with fellow brother's and sister's (of course we were never allowed to associated with "worldy people). My mobile would ring every 20 mins to see what I was up to, as our behaviour would look bad on his eldership.
I once stayed at a sister's house she only had a double bed so i shared with her, when my dad found this out he accused me of being a lesbian.
I guess my faith started weaing when after I finished High School i decided to become a full time pioneer. I put my application in but during the time it was sent off and approved, the docs thought my dad had cancer so i went out and got a job to help support the family.
My father rang the elders and told them this and asked them not to announce my becoming a pioneer until we knew more. That night they announced it at the meeting ( I wasnt even there). The next meeting I was at i was with all my friends talking, and the whole entire body of elders walked up to me and ask if i would accompany them to the second school. I walked in they shut the doors and all the curtains......i was about to be interegated. They said how i made them look bad by announcing my appointment as a pioneer and now i wouldnt be pioneering. They told me satan is going to try and get to me every way he can when i go to work and rub with people in the world.
Sorry guys must dash will finish my story very soon
hope to hear from people and there stories
luv es
hello to everyone, my name is esther and i am from australia.. i was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw.
i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.. i just wanted to say hi.
this is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,i'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them.
Hello to everyone, my name is esther and I am from australia.
I was directed to this website from my ex husband who also was a jw. i guess in the truth we still are as we have not been df or disocciated ourselves.
I just wanted to say hi. This is a great website, i had been brought up in the truth and had only decided to leave about 2 years ago, when my marriage was failing,I'm not a person who lives great by other peoples rules, especially when i dont agree with half of them. My father is an elder and a very strict one at that, he loves to use the emotional blackmail on me. I have a 3 year old son and i watch him at his birthdays and at christmas and get rather upset i was never given the chance to experience this for myself, but im living through my son.
I would love to meet new people
chat soon.
es
