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Why I am SURE we made to right decision to leave the JW's..........

by Latte in

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this is an entry i made into a diary from about 4 12 years ago - 6mths before we finally left.......

"summer hols have come and gone...... not one jw asked to play with my lovely children - sick people" .

Latte

Aaaww....Hopeless

Even those whom I thought were such warm and kind friends, my door-to-door companions, made no attempt to ask why, or what might be going on with me

It was the same for me too! This is one of the reasons I started this thread, as so often, leaving can make you doubt yourself for a very long time. It can be quite traumatic when people feel quite happy to give you the .....cold shoulder.... (or worse!) One needs to realize that by leaving you are showing great strength and courage to leave the ....way of life......and all which that entails.... behind

I feel very happy at the moment, and believe it or not, I have for the most part 'left it all behind' I don't care anymore.

The joy I get from knowing that my kids are cultivating friendship with non-Jw's who, who knows.... may be around for a long time in there lives....they won't leave them for some silly reason like... beliefs.

{{{{{Java}}}}}

Great to see you again! You were one of the very first people to make me welcome on this forum...all those years ago....

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Why I am SURE we made to right decision to leave the JW's..........

by Latte in

jw
friends

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this is an entry i made into a diary from about 4 12 years ago - 6mths before we finally left.......

"summer hols have come and gone...... not one jw asked to play with my lovely children - sick people" .

Latte

Old soul.....LOL Yes, they were white last time I checked!

Our closest friends were very heavily into the JW's. I agree with ALL the comments made....they desert you no matter what kind of person you are...no matter how nice a person....no matter how many times they've enjoyed your hospitality and kindness - non of these things matter.......

Happy Latte

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Why I am SURE we made to right decision to leave the JW's..........

by Latte in

jw
friends

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this is an entry i made into a diary from about 4 12 years ago - 6mths before we finally left.......

"summer hols have come and gone...... not one jw asked to play with my lovely children - sick people" .

Latte

Here is a pic of my kids from last year...............

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Why I am SURE we made to right decision to leave the JW's..........

by Latte in

jw
friends

.

this is an entry i made into a diary from about 4 12 years ago - 6mths before we finally left.......

"summer hols have come and gone...... not one jw asked to play with my lovely children - sick people" .

Latte

This is an entry I made into a diary from about 4 ½ years ago - 6mths before we finally left.......

"Summer hols have come and gone...... not ONE jw asked to play with my lovely children - sick people"

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Mrs Ozzie asked me to inform you all that........................

by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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friends

....................our great mate ozzie is sick in hospital.

he isn't able to post so i am the go-between for the moment.. if you want more details or contact information pm me and i will make sure it's ok with the ozzies to forward those details to you.. ozzie is a tough dude and having known him for many years i am confident he will be back on board before too long!.

please be patient with me as i work and can only check my pms in the evenings.

Latte

{{{{{{{{{Ozzie}}}}}}}}}}

Get well soon!

We will be thinking of you both...take care.

Latte & Family

xx

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mmnnnnn ... who makes you just "melt"

by Simon in

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for an oldie i'd pick audrey hepburn singing moon river ... mmnnnn, i never get tired of that.. currently i'm listening to norah jones an aweful lot.

she is very easy on the ears and is my "audible-heaven" right now.. so who's voice makes you 'melt' ?

Latte

Norah Jones is so soothing on the ears...and nerves! Lovely.

I do like Dean Martin 'Sweet...sweet.. memories you gave me' and 'Amourie'

You have great taste Simon!

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my mom stopped going to meetings today

by dh in

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i don't talk about my family very much on here, but today i feel i have to, because today after all the years of pushing, finally there is a result.. thanks to life & the universe and everyone on jwd, who by simply existing have helped in a way that i don't know how to write.. today is the day my mom stopped going to meetings.. i won't go into loads of detail at this point because it's very involved, but it's done.

my dad is an elder and is still going, but my mom is out now.. thanks

Latte

dh,

Great news!

My mom stopped going at around the same time we did.....it really seemed strange, as it was my mum who got us all involved, all those years ago.

I wish your mum the same hapiness which my mum now has. (it's taken her quite some years to get used to being 'out' ....but more than worth it )

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My wife was grabbed by a JW today.AT the ST.Louis Home show.

by ko38 in

(not sexual)we ran into an old friend that we first met when he was not a practicing dub about 10 years ago.we used to go out to dinner all the time and both his wife and mine got along well.he was a former ms and while i didnt know that he had a background with the org at the time i was all the time talking about our need for a purpose in life.. i thought i would influence him in the truth and show him the way to salvation even though i was at the time way far from the society's acceptable persona of good standing..well,after a night of many crown royals and crab legs and prime rib and pasta bar he told me that he used to be an ms.. he was very shy to admit this as his lifestyle was not befitting a christian.for some reason or another we drifted apart and lost touch.in the meantime a couple years passed, well more than a couple maybe 10 and last years district convention,guess who we saw?yep my buddy sitting 2 rows across from us.. let me give you some background,i was raised a dub and went crazy at 16 before being baptised.ive never been baptised.i had always believed though, and had never went to college.i put in full time hours though never was recognised at all as you know.. some of you may know that there was a few years lapse there and then we found out the truth about the truth.without telling the whole story i would like to skip to this week.my friend is a home improvement salesperson the same as i am.we first saw him going out the door where the smokers hang out.we hadnt seen him in a while so we called out to him.he told us right away that he was back in.i took a looooong pause and said that i had done a lot of research since i had last seen him.. he said (thats great, so when are you getting baptised?

)my wife was with me and she just looked at me like,this ones yours.well i brought up a few points about the usual un thing the flip flop and the fds.then he just walked away and shook his head.this was so abrupt it was uncomfortable.my wife and i went back to our respective booths in the homeshow and just thought to ourselves(he is blinded).. on the very next break my wife had,she walked towards my booth and just happend to passs him againl.he grabbed her and said i know your husband feels that way,but do you?you know that right now you have to make a choice.. to make a long story short,my wife who has never been a dub and has no problem with the truth told him that she is the one who showed me the truth about the truth and started to speak of the need for truth in speech and the consistancy in beliefs.needless to say he spoke of ,either you have gods spirit or not.. we both tried to reason with him however it was clear he was brainwashed to the point of unreasonablness.. .

those dubs are programmed to reject

Latte

{{{{{{{Ko38 & wife}}}}}}},

It is so hard to get past that JW mindset?the GB have done a good job in that dept. (SIGH)

I?m sure that something would of gone in, it does rock them a little. You did your best, and what you had to do.

I would love to free my old JW friends, but I am coming over to believing that, they really have to do it themselves, I'm sure you helped that process.

Take care

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