Posts by ClaireManEater

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Have you put your JW family behind you? Are you content with your decision

by nicolaou in

just feeling a bit fed up.

it's not always like this i know but i'm wondering if life would be far easier for me and my wife if i just drew a line under all my efforts to maintain a relationship with my jw mother, brother and sisters.

all the rejection, judgementalism and condescension gets a bit much after a while.. how many here actually said 'goodbye' to their jw family and can honestly say they did not regret it?.

ClaireManEater

Well, apparently they've already put me behind, why should I feel any better about them?

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Screw You Watchtower I love my MAN!!!!! My Sex God from Croatia!!!

by ClaireManEater in

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well i got disfellowshiped for "immorality".

me and my girl friend went to europe and eventually ended up in croatia.

(what a beautiful place by the way).

ClaireManEater

Hi Zag, well, well good old blood :)

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Help settle a debate. Internet relationships...

by esw1966 in

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a stay at home dad posted on craig's list that he was looking for platonic email correspondance with a lady, someone to talk about life with, insights into relationships, a reason to turn on the computer in the morning et cetera....... my fiance occasionally finds herself seeking relationships with select people online and getting into soulful conversations with them.

she feels that people can be their truest selves in these moments.

to share the quirks of life with random fellow americans is somehow thrilling to her.

ClaireManEater

I don't know what to say. I'd rather spend time with my sex god than talking to strangers from all over USA. No offence, but she needs to get a life. With you of course ;)

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What were your reasons for becoming a JW?

by Narkissos in

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reasons, not excuses -- even valid ones (like, "i was ignorant, depressed, fooled").. yours in the sense that you can still own (to) them -- even though you now know the "answer" was wrong.. this obviously applies to those who became jws -- hence mostly not born-in, although some of the latter might admit to having chosen the jw way for themselves at a certain stage of their childhood or teenage years.. this question is triggered by a previous conversation with purplesofa on another thread:.

i think most of us that came in and not born in were searching.

our hearts were pure in our search.

ClaireManEater

No one asked me if I wanted

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How Dysfunctional A Witness Were You?

by minimus in

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reading posters' comments help me to see that since leaving "the organization", many have gotten emotionally better.

of course, you don't have to be a witness to have dysfunction but feeling the pressure of always being told that we are inferior, that we're not doing enough, can get to the best of us!

looking back, how dysfunctional were you??

ClaireManEater

Very! It is only now that I'm coming around.

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How did your family react to your decision over time?

by mavie in

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i'm still somewhat hopeful my family will one day 'see the light'.

in your experience, did any of your family members finally understand your reason for leaving and communicate with you as a family member and not an apostate?.

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ClaireManEater

How did they react????? My mother turned me in, my father doesn't want to know I exist. My younger sister is not allowed to talk to me anymore. Does that answer it? Amen!

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