Dear Mr. Herd,
Thank you for that wonderful talk on ''the woman's role of subjection, submissiveness, pleasing and filling the needs of man." I tried that on my wife but for some reason she wants to hit me on the head with a frying pan when I mention your wonderful talk.
My Witness mom has been in ''subjection'' to my non-witness mentally abusive dad for close to 56 years. She worked and handed him her pay checks. He decided who their friends would be, where they went, and where they lived. He never liked going on vacations, going to the movies, going out to restaurants, and told her that she couldn't learn to drive a car.
She never had her own money. He decided on how much she would spend on clothes and groceries. She even had to ask him for coffee money while at work. We saw the fights that they had where she would cry and not argue because she believed your stupid views.
My dad would yell, scream and call her names over the 56 years of marriage. She would never dare to talk back to him. She lived in fear of my dad because she was a ''good'' Jehovah's Witness who was taught the stupid role of subjection to her husband. She always wanted to divorce my father but was fearful of the Elders and the WTBTS. She did everything to please him but he was the man you want every woman to marry.
Mr.Herd, my mom is old and very sick and wished she left him a long time ago. She stayed in an awful marriage because of fear. She will never get those 56 years back. Please don't let other woman stay in a marriage in '' subjection, submissiveness and filling the needs of man.''
