Welcome Unclear and Looking_Glass
Pull up a chair, take off your shoes and stay awhile! You all come back now, ya hear!!
Paula
this obviously is my first post, i actually feel like i may be sick but i felt compelled to post.
only if to just say hello.. my life has been anything but boring, pioneered for years, brought several family members into "the truth", and find myself unable to have studies anylonger because i feel unsure about the stand i have taken all these years.. i was previously married, my husband left the organization for various reason, we divorced and i recently remarried another brother, he is a wonderful man and husband, i care for him deeply we and had been friends for 15 years.
i also have a son from my first marriage who is 4, he is the love of my life, recently my son had an opertion that could require a blook transfusion and to be honest i could never deny him that.
Welcome Unclear and Looking_Glass
Pull up a chair, take off your shoes and stay awhile! You all come back now, ya hear!!
Paula
i think you are all going to get a kick out of this, .
for those of you that don't know me, i have been out of the organization for almost 4.5 years but i have never been disfellowshipped nor have i disassociated myself.. last night after going out to a nice italian resturaunt with my girlfriend, father, and step-mom,( who never were part of the organization in the first place) my girlfriend and i said goodbye to them and we began the trip back to her place, which is 2.5 hours away.
before we got on the turnpike she said, "that she had to use the restroom and could i please stop off somewhere.
Hi general
First, i would like say "welcome to the forum"! I can't help it but what you said made me laugh! Like, how dare they!!! What you said kinda reminds me of what happened when a JW who lives in the Senior building in front of me found out i was dating a Witness! BTY, i have never been a JW but am in love with one for the past seven years!!
Anyway, when she found out she accused me of trying to distroy a "good man" and take him away from the church, blah blah blah!! Since then she stakes herself outside his apt. which is just across the street from me as well!! I laugh at her but my boyfriend is afraid of her because he is hiding me from EVERYONE!!
Paula
i just spent 1000 pounds on a new central heating boiler.
it's not installed yet so i have no heating.
the picture has gone permanently blue on my main tv.
Sounds like someone is having a bad week, now that the worst is over, nothing but the best will come!!
Paula
i always felt unique from everyone else.
being a jw i never quite felt like i was from the same planet as all the other school children.
as a jw i fit in, but still not quite, as i was a bit too indepentdant a thinker.
My boyfriend is JW and his is weird!!
Paula
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i'm at work and well it is a slow day, one of those when no one comes in at all.
lola
I'm watching Court TV after a very long day!
Paula
my uncle ocasionally complains about how my aunt loves her adult children more than him because she's always thinking about them, worrying about them and reaching out to them.
i think that's a surprising viewpoint because i thought that most mothers (and many fathers) love their children above all others.. do you think that's true?
should a parent love their children more than the spouse (or significant other)?
Being a parent of two adult sons my opionion is that if the child is a minor then ofcourse the feeling of love is much stronger because they are so helpless at that age! I still love my sons now but since i know they can fend for themselves we are less close! I never loved their father so the answer is that i loved them more then their father!!
Paula
are there any trinidadians in this forum?
if so, please post, would like to chat!
paula
Hi jgnat
Do you have family there then or now?? I do!
Paula
are there any trinidadians in this forum?
if so, please post, would like to chat!
paula
Well, i guess there are no Trinidadians in this forum, my bad, sorry i posted this!!
Paula
until recently i used to be just a lurker.
but since i began posting, i am finding it very theraputic!
seems getting out my feelings, and sharing with others my experiences, and the things i personally have discovered, is helping me alot!
You came to the right place sweetie!
Paula
i was adopted into a jw family in southern california.
my birth mother gave me up after 6 months (the terms mom & dad refer to my adoptive/real parents).
she gave me up due to the fact that she already had a three year old boy, and back in the late sixties it was not as socially acceptable to be a single mother.
Welcome sweetie!
Paula