Telling any potential girlfriend you used to be a JW is the kiss of death, dude.
Oh, good grief.
Most people really don't know, nor care to know, that much about JW's. It is an initial curiosity, then not much more - especially if you were raised in.
I know several ex-jw's who are now happily married to nice, normal people. All of them had an initial curiosity about it, but for the most part it's just history - and everyone has a history. "JW" is really little worse than "die hard catholic".
For everyone I've met, "I was a JW" amounts to pretty much nothing. People either like me or they don't - and being a JW at one point in time has nothing to do with it.
If anything hurts asilentone, it's his complete inability to just F*CKING PICK ONE and get to know THEM, as a person, and love it. Seriously.. I think I've shared more meaningful smiles than asilentone's dates and dinners amount to. (I'm just saying, make something HAPPEN already... and I don't mean sex. Oh, nevermind.)
- Lime