Andrea Wideman

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  I wonder how my mother-in-law will react.

  by Andrea Wideman in

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  my mother-in-law is a jw.

  she is the one that gave the knowledge book and took such and interest in my baptism that she made sure whomever needed to know did about why i wasn't with the other people getting baptized that day.

  i couldn't fit in the seat.

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  oHi, short introduction

  by Sugarcane in

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  glad i found this board and hope to have some interesting discussions.

  i'll post my story later today, but in the meantime; i'm a single parent with 2 kids, was a jw for 26 years in total (born one, left at 17 years, went back at 21), became inactive 4 years ago and disassociated myself 4 weeks ago!.

  my experience with the bible org.

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  My Journey

  by Andrea Wideman in

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  my journey to find a religion i could believe in wholeheartedly started as a young adult.

  i was raised as a catholic but couldn't say for certain that i believed all that i was taught..

  i had a mother who was a catholic and a father who was a divorced protestant.

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  The Book Signing that ended in a JC Meeting...

  by jesussaves in

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  hey y'all,.

  i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.

  my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.

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  KH meeting - boring!

  by jstalin in

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  i'm not a jw but a friend of mine who is a jw invited me to the memorial service at the kh this year.

  i was raised catholic but now i'm agnostic/atheist.

  one thing that struck me was how horribly sterile and boring the memorial service was.

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  A Story and A Little Bit of Grattitude

  by MrsBee in

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  i never was a jw, went to kh a few times as a teenager, didnt feel comfortable with the things said, alot of my associates as an adult were brought up witnesses, but ya know, were pretty much disowned by their families as adults because they chose not to be jw's.. my husband is a d'fed jw, i knew he had been a jw, but it didnt even cross my mind that he would go back to them..

  well, a couple of months after we were married ( around september of last year) this guy started calling our home asking him i guess to come to the kh.

  i flipped out, i started not talking to him, i was very emotionally distraught over this matter, and then i went from being sad to damn mad, and i would just ignore him, because in my mind i saw this as as something that will break up my marriage (my feelings on that havent changed) while searching the internet trying to find things to change his mind about this religion something great happened, i started reading the bible and just in general started to feel better as a person myself and how it was ok for me to feel how i felt, because i felt like i was bamboozled because as much as i love my husband, i would have thought differently about marriage if i knew he was going to become a witness again.

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  life after dfing

  by happygirl in

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  i have been visiting this forum for the past four years and have gathered a enormous amount of info from all of you,thank-you.my husband was df'd eight years ago when we got together,i am not an jw,nor was i ever,we had a son then got married five years ago.our son is now seven and the love our of lives,my husbands family has not only shunned him but also our little man who is the innocent one in this situation.his grandfather did come and visit with us once, but the rest of his sibblings and families have never inquired or seen our son.he is now starting to inquire about the rest of my husbands family who and where they are?hubby's sister and family live five minutes away from us.how should we explain to a seven year old the situation without upsetting him?

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  After my un-DF'ing, I have sent a letter to everyone in my hall.

  by kwintestal in

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  in the final installment of my story, i am done with my local congregation now.

  in the past month, i have been df'd, un-df'd attended a meeting where i shook everyones hand and smiled ... and now i have sent everyone in the hall this letter, roughly 60 addresses:.

  open letter to the north congregation of jehovahs witnesses.

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  Hi im a new member!

  by skinnyboy in

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  after several attempts to log on, im finally in!

  woohoo!.

  well my story goes as follows, grew up a dub, in northern england, mum, dad, and the rest of us brood, dad becomes an elder sisters pioneers, and me and me brother were regular "publishers".

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  Story-Lillian Cruz from Hingham Massachusetts

  by DannyHaszard in

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  http://www.freeminds.org/women/lillycruz.htm

  my name is lillian cruz and this is my story

  i was the one at first searching for truth from the bible.

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