I am 26 and I have been out permanently since i was 16 when my mom got df'd so thank goodness she is out. But I have an Aunt and her family and my grandparents are still in there! I personally am religiously numb. Every time I hear someone say god bless me or thank god or anything relatively religious at all I just want to puke. I do think that JW's are very brainwashed and are trained very well to hold them self higher than every one "worldly". I am so sorry to hear of anyone else going thru the shunning process that our "old friends and family" put us all through! I know things get better that I promise!