Thanks all...if it were not for this website, i may not have come to grip with the fact that while there is great pain and loss at a time like this...that people here HAVE made it with a new life. my young son has also been an inspiration in that although he still grieves his losses some, including his lifelong best friend...a true twin brother to him who recently was reinstated and has now severed ties. i have made several friends here...some in person, and some not, but this site is above all else a SUPPORT GROUP!.......and even one of my therapists told my wife it was much needed in my life
i do appreciate all the hugs and support, and knew it would happen because that is the way we are here...but i mainly posted because i needed to...and i wanted any newbies or lurkers to realize the sick mindset and pain that inflicts so much damage on families all due to decisions we may have made as children!!!......i told my dad that is just insane!.....i felt the normal pressure to get baptized...it was the thing to do and what option did i have?..."dad can i go check out the catholic church down the street?".....i asked my dad what he would have done when i was 15 and expressed such an interest...kids have no option for the most part, and wt wants to get their controlling hooks in you as early as possible despite a wt stating that in first century christianity only adults were baptised...so why do they not follow that pattern when EVERYTHING else is copied from the first century?!?!?......
strange how short and fairly unemotional it was talking with my wife...who unfortunately had heard all of the for most of the past three years until we signed a "do not discuss religion/god/bible truce".......but my mom had not so much, and while the pain of losing my marriage has been seeping in for years...the loss of my parents is still very fresh and raw, and they could see the anger, frustration, bitterness and regrets i have harbored and still do i guess....told them about wearing masks since 3rd grade to fit in at school and home, and hall.....told them i so wish my dfd sister at 16 had DRAGGED ME WITH HER when she knew early on she had to have freedom of thought and speech
i know it is pointless to look back, nor worry too much about the future...just one day at a time...but my heart has a weight off it....oompa