a warm welcome to you....I know you will find a lot of very good people here who have been through much the same experiences as you have. I hope you post lots and it is nice to see you here.
Posts by arwen
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42Another newbie here...
by tall penguin inmy apologies in advance for the long post.
this is the story i thought i'd be taking to my grave so just to have the chance to put it out there feels so freeing.
thanks for listening.
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A must read!!!! Reminded me of the dub's paradise!
by kittyeatzjdubs ina recent thread that was started about the dubs view of remarrying in paradise reminded me of a book i read many times in high school.. the giver by lois lowry.
it's basically about a boy who grows up in a perfect utopian world.
there's one elderly man who remembers how the real world was and he passes the truth on to the boy.
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arwen
I just read some of it online and it looks really interesting..I ordered it from our public library and hope to read it soon. thanks for suggesting it.
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Letter to my JW ex-wife
by Fatfreek inmy first marriage of 19 years ended as i left the jw's.
i was (their word) apostate.. i heard that her mother, also a jw, died yesterday.
she'd been senile for several years.. it's been some 27 years since our divorce but i couldn't stop thinking about her mother last night.
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arwen
In times of sorrow I think we need all the comfort we can get...I, too, have lost my mom and it is indeed a terrible loss no matter how sick the mom was. We just have one mother..and mine too was my best friend..I think your ex will be grateful for your words...
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I'm starting to like 'Gospel Music' now - any favorites?
by AK - Jeff inlistening to the statler brothers gospel album right now.. wow - upbuilding and positive and hopefull.
how different from the wt songs that were announcing death and destruction to the world.. any others out there like gospel music since leaving the 'lie'?.
jeff
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arwen
I was brought up with gospel music...played piano...sang with my dad and three sister in harmony in churches...I left it all behind when I got the "troof". I missed it a lot...We sang beautiful Christmas songs together...My sister is a stand up bass player in a Bluegrass Band and she knows a lot of Bluegrass Gospel music and people I have never heard of...This summer I went to a festival on a Sunday and all bluegrass gospel music was playing all day...it was refreshing...I hope someday to get back to the music that I gave up.....The Gaither family has great gospel tunes..
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What song reminds you of your first crush/lover?
by JH in.
probably you'll have to go way back in time... .
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arwen
Unchained Melody by the Rightous Brothers...when my boyfriend..now husband was gone to Army Cadet Camp for the summer...I sent him a letter with the words to that song....
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Vaginal Birth or Cesarean Section
by Dimples into all the mommy's out there...did you deliver vaginally or by c-section?.
i was fortunate enough to deliver both my children vaginally although i came close to a c-section with my son.
he was in the posterier position.
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arwen
I tell everyone that I was doing a survey to see if women should have babies when they are young or older, have children spaced far apart or close together in age. I had two vaginals and two c--sections. My first was at age 18 weighed in at 9lb 8 ounces 23 inches, my second five years later weighed 8 lbs 6ounces.......then sixteen yearss later at age 35 I am an emergency c-section after a day of intense labour and welcomed my only daughter weighing 10lbs 8 ounces.21 inches long. Twenty months later,,,another section and a 10lb, 22 inches baby a week early...planned section this time....I felt like I was hit by a mack truck with the sections...twenty years later and I am still recovering!! The baby is 6'3" now.....The answer to the survey is have children around 29 or 30 and deliver vaginally if possible and space them four years apart for your own sanity.....
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Your First Love...
by Country Girl ineveryone has a first love, and there's usually a wonderfully dramatic story.
juveniles arevery dramatic.
what happened with your first love?
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arwen
I met my first love at age 14. I knew he was my soulmate. We dated for four years and during a quarrel I met someone else and married him. I remember standing there on my wedding day wishing I was someplace else but I went through with it. He became and JW and we had two children. It was a very difficult marriage. It lasted ten long years.....We tried marriage counselling twice.. He became very controlling and fanatical and critisied my every move in life...I wanted to kill myself many times. I met my first love again and he had never married and was still in love with me and I with him so after five years of nightmare from my ex we got married and had two children and have been married to 20 years now. I love him with all my heart and I am so grateful that we had a chance to have a life. If I died tomorrow I know what it feels like to be truly loved and to truly love someone....some say it sounds like a fairy tale..but it is true.
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A Jehovah Witness Murders A Man!
by Legolas indid you guys see this?
friday.
sep 02, 2005. log inenroll.
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arwen
Some of us new ones on the board have never heard of the goings on of other JW's before and have been taught to believe that JW's wouldn't ever do anything like this. I was quite shocked when I read this and I am glad she brought it up as I might never have seen it. I had never heard of the trial in Scotland either or about Ray Franz books.....so please don't forget some of us as just getting "out" and we need all the news we can get.....Thanks Legolas for your post
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A Jehovah Witness Murders A Man!
by Legolas indid you guys see this?
friday.
sep 02, 2005. log inenroll.
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arwen
Some of us new ones on the board have never heard of the goings on of other JW's before and have been taught to believe that JW's wouldn't ever do anything like this. I was quite shocked when I read this and I am glad she brought it up as I might never have seen it. I had never heard of the trial in Scotland either or about Ray Franz books.....so please don't forget some of us as just getting "out" and we need all the news we can get.....Thanks Legolas for your post
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Do you like who you are?
by damselfly ini was inspired by rat's post.
are you a nice person?
melodramatic?
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arwen
I am not sure who I am right now but whoever I am I think I like me. I have a fabulous sense of humour, almost crazy at times. I tend to be shy at first as I doubt myself alot and I hate making quick decisions but I am working on that.