Might I suggest if you want to locate other ex-JW in your area, check Meetup, Yahoo Groups and even Facebook. I attend a group here in Florida. It does help! Good luck to you!
mamamo
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I talked the first time in 20 years to a non-JW and need a divorce...
by Intel inthis is very difficult to write (forgive me for any spelling mistake, i am not a native english speaker).. i cannot tell my complete story on this board - i eventually will, once i have broken the last "link in the chain" that has kept me captive to the borg.
i can't tell my story, because.....basically i will be known.....as a more or less "famous" jw..... i have been lurking this site for many years, wrote here under another name - this eventually was found out and i had to do "damage containment".
i had to "go back" and tow the party line....all my family (extended and close) are witnesses, all my "friends" and even work & business relationships are jw.
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What Did You Not Do Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness That You Wanted To Do?
by minimus ini didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.
still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".
i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.
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mamamo
College which I am working on my BS degree right now at age 45
Dating, which is still haunting me because I never learned the ins and outs of it when non JWs did
Holidays
Forming lasting friendships with people I knew growing up, but Facebook is reconnecting me with some of those.
Thinking the end was just about to happened when I left so I rushed into a bad marriage , so not taking the time I should have to find the right guy, really fall in love and then have kids.
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Casey Anthony
by Iconoclast inanyone else here obsessed with this case as much as i am?
she's saying her daughter accidently drowned now?
and the father told her to hide the body?
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mamamo
Any mother who waits a month to report the child missing is somehow involved or covering up. Unfortunately, accidental pool drowning happen here in Florida more often than you would like to think about. There was a JW family about 30 years ago in Daytona it happened to, even with a big fence around the pool. But to try to hide something that is tragic with this kind of stunt? Gasping at straws.
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Going to try quitting smoking again...
by sinis inseriously this time.
its not the nicotine that drives me nuts (i chew the gum) it's that hand mouth desire or lack of it.
i am finding myself chewing on pencils or whatever else is around me.
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mamamo
Good luck to you!
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mamamo
As long as there isn't a Hurricane bearing down on Central Florida, nothing different than any other Friday. Hurricane Charley hit us hard on Friday th 13th 2004. If there is a storm headed our way, I'm headed to Georgia!
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Need help!
by Snowboarder inhello wounderfull people, i would like to thank everyone for they help before, but i still need moral support, i have made my mind up and i want to thanks a member of the aussie team olympic team for responding to my email.
it really means a lot for me when i don't have any real friends when a olympic athlete responds to your email and cares.
she gave me good advice and told me it's possible even thought my situation is hard, that really gave me hope and it was that push that i need to start thinking seriously.
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mamamo
GO FOR IT!!!!!!
I have so many regrets, I regret not going to college right after High School, I regret not trying to find the love of my life earlier, I could go on, but you get the idea. If you are capable of going to the Olympics, go for it! DO not let anything including a cult of a religon stand in your way! Take it from someone who turns 46 this year and is in college and trying to find a guy, don't have the regrets!
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Tell Us What's Happening on Mother's Day
by OnTheWayOut inso many of us are free, so many of us are not.. share whatever "mother's day" activity you will be involved in this year.
moms and those with non or ex-jw moms, whazzup?.
tell us how that makes you feel, your involvement or lack of involvement in mother's day..
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mamamo
I won't do anything for my mom, very devout. But my son and I are going to Walt Disney World including Epcot to see Davy Jones from the Monkees. That is my Mother's Day present to myself!
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Do You Blame Your Current Life's Issues Because You Were A JW?
by minimus indo you tend to blame your problems on the fact that you were a jehovah's witness?.
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mamamo
Yes, there are the good things, my work ethic and studying ability that I learned as a JW. Also I can strike up a conversation with about anyone about anything. That might have come from all those forced hours in service.
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Do You Blame Your Current Life's Issues Because You Were A JW?
by minimus indo you tend to blame your problems on the fact that you were a jehovah's witness?.
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mamamo
Yes, I do blame somethings on the fact that i was born a JW and did stay in until I was 25. So I didn't attend college even though I did have the GPA and would have qualified for scholarships, if I had pursued them. I blame the society because I quickly found a guy and had a child before the world ended and I burned up in the Lake of Fire. Don't misunderstand me, I love my son and don't regret having him, but I did rush into a relationship with his father and that I wish I had to do over again. I wish I had the experiences that others had, I feel stunted when it comes to dating and male-female relationships.
So I now have an AA degree and I am currently working on my BS in Marketing Management. And I have a date tomorrow with a guy I really like so hopefully I won't mess it up.
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Things we have WANTED rather badly in our lives....
by Terry ini was at work yesterday at the bookstore.. watching a mom and her little boy.... the kid was really really wanting something or other and the mom was drawing the line and telling him "no".. he was having a come-apart over it.
some little book or movie.
to him it was a big deal.. .
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mamamo
A birthday party. Or even to be able to attend other kids' birthday parties. To be able to say Merry Christmas or Bless you when someone sneezed. I really wanted to be "normal." Funny thing is I don't think my kids really appreciate their normalcy.