i feel for you AK Jeff, I admire how much you were willing to put up with to show support to your wife at a very stressful time. Be confident you did the right thing not making a scene for her sake. My hubby and I are facing a similar situation with both of our elderly JW mothers. Mine has been openly hostile toward my hubby. When she dies he'll be in the same boat as you. You're a good man.
Posts by 3rdgen
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45Feel the Goddamned Love
by AK - Jeff inmy mil of 38 years - who has not spoken to me for the 9 years since i left her cult - died on sunday.. today, as a favor to my sil who has spoken to me very rarely, for the same reasons, over the same period of time, i was moving some personal items to her home from the nursing home.
in this instance i guess it is ok to speak with me - if i have a strong back and a conveyance that aids her needs at the moment.. anyway, in the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lives, while we are moving in those items, guess who shows up?
five or six of my old 'best friends'.
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The Elders "want to meet with us"
by finally awake injust ron and i were sitting outside on our porch, enjoying the beautiful late afternoon weather when our middle son came outside with the phone.
it was brother lazy slacker calling.
just ron took the phone before he knew who was calling.
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Wow, Finally Awake, Your hubby took a call that could have blindsided a lesser person and thought on his feet. Good for him! Love your names. We were inactive in Fs and hadn't been to a meeting in almost 5 years before we got a call about 6 months ago from brother Drinks till he's Wasted, an Elder from the hall we used to attend. We have caller ID so we let it go to voicemail. He just said to call him back. Of course we didn't. Then, about 2 months ago we got a call from bro. Nice but Henpecked, who is in the territory we moved to. Again, the message was to call him back. He tried 2 more times without leaving a message.
It seems as though these brothers were told to call us. (probably by the CO) Neither has tried lately. I think it is interesting that neither Elder would say why they were calling in their message. I'm sure they don't really want to hear what we have to say!
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My own story.
by JoelCW ini'm a long time lurker, first time poster.
i think i have a similar story to others who were brought up in the so called "truth" but after reading so many stories i thought i'd finally get around to writing mine:.
like i said, i was raised into it and almost my entire immediate family where (and for the most part still are) serious members.
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3rdgen
Congratulations on getting out while you were still young! It took hubby and me forty years longer than you to wake up.
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ABOUT TERRY
by Quentin interry was admitted to the hospital yesterday.
he has a severe case of cellulites which has affected his neck glands.
his face and neck are very swollen.
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3rdgen
Yikes, what a terrible thing to happen! Sending positive thoughts and well wishes your way from Balaamsass and me.
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Loss and Loneliness
by compound complex intonight's sunset is as spectacular as any i had ever viewed from the kitchen window in my former, beloved home-sweet-home.. a tiny abode it was compared to my current habitation.
no longer within a mere four wooden walls of plain aspect and diminutive scale, i now am lost in a seeming infinite architectural spread that reaches toward earth's four points, an edifice of four expansive levels that demand i walk, climb, explore every one of thousands of hidden nooks and crannies.
i am compelled to do this but find no joy in discovery.
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((((((((((Co Co))))))))))) ((((((((Lois))))))))) I've been there
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Heres What Happened When an Elderly Woman Took It Upon Herself to Restore a Painting in a Nearby Church
by Arcadio inhttp://gawker.com/5936665/heres-what-happened-when-an-elderly-man-took-it-upon-himself-to-restore-a-painting-in-a-nearby-church.
"we admire people who have can-do, elbow-grease-type attitudes.
if something's broke, why not fix it?
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3rdgen
Why stop here? She could wipe the sh!T eating grin off the Mona Lisa.
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3rdgen
Scott, I respectfully disagree. IMO, not all men or women are beautiful. Yet what makes them ugly is not external. It is personality and behaviors. The old saying "pretty is as pretty does" is true.
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Jehovah's Christian Witnesses
by LoisLane looking for Superman inhow much do you want to bet, that in the next year or two, the governing body will get "new light" and change their name to jehovah's christian witnesses"?.
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3rdgen
Ray Franz was fond of the term and you know what happened to him. If he said it, wrote it, or liked it, it is no longer acceptable. Congregations that had signs that said Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses were told they must remove Christian from the signs. The WT$ is correct they are NOT Christian.
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3rdgen
144001 and TD, I'll bet your wives are smart enough to know a good man when they see one!
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3rdgen
Define ugly. Don't most humans who have a measure of character eventually see INSIDE a person as well as the superficial? Example: I have a realative who is an incredibly tall,dark and handsome man. Everywhere he goes women shamelessly flirt with him-right in front of his wife. However, he is selfish, abusive, and a misogonist. His wife and most women who KNOW him find him disgusting.
OTOH, we all know of physically unattractive people who are BEAUTIFUL on the inside. Think mother Theresa, Elinor Rosevelt. The same goes for men.