Ballistic, I love your new "man on a wheel" illustration.
It was at once easy and difficult for me to leave. I was raised in "the truth". Baptism was a fait accompli. One week before my baptism at the Greenville, SC assembly, my jw husband slammed my head into our living room wall. After a meeting with the brothers who told me to be in subjection, I had a change of heart.
I knew this would alienate my mother, who had already told all of her friends how wonderful it was that I was getting baptized.
So sorry.....my heart won over loyalty to my mother or the "so-called truth".
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)