The answer would be yes yes yes to the main question 🙂....even though I didn’t stayed in the religion very long —phew!!!
Meeting others friends or otherwise has proved very tricky until today... and I don’t think that will ever change for me.
Maybe some will not agree with me (and that will be great!) but in my mind once you’ve dipped into that world (JWs) it just seems to follow you like a bad stench.
It’s a futile fight as so many times just lurks there...ready to lift its ugly head ready to POUNCE once the chance presents itself. Urgh!
I call it my ex-jw mind. 😖