do witnesses really want to go to the meetings?
or do they just go because they feel they must to get into the new world.
or is it just peer pressure or pressure of elders?
I suppose you do feel pressured into to going but when your born in you become a robot, its where you always are at the same time each week. You don't really think about it.
Toward the end though when we weren't going much, I have been known to turn the alarm off on a Sunday morning and go" Oh dear! We have slept in!" he! he!
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Gadget - Did you camp at Murrayfield in the paddock at the stadium?
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Sweetpea - Thank you for the kind invitation, we have family( non jws) down south, so if we visit we may take you up on that and the same applies to your family, if you are ever in the North of England please look us up.
Flipper - Thank you for your kind words, cold turkey is hard isn't it but worth it. I have to say I haven't missed going to the meetings one bit. Since we left, I have come to realise that I hadn't believe it was the truth for years but went more for the social aspect, which in our old cong was all people seemed to be interested in. Drinking mainly! Double lives doesn't just apply to youth in the truth you know, the stories we could all tell!
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Thank you to everyone for their kind words, it really warms my heart to find people who truely understand what we have gone through and have gone through similar experiences. Our family is so much happier and its a pleasure to see our children grow up "normal", making friends who really want to be their friends and do not have an agenda! I think if i'm honest i'm a bit jealous of them, as a born in you were encouraged to have only friends in the jws as everyone else would pull you away from Jehovah, unfortunately for me , I grew up in a very small, old cong with only 4 young people! When our family moved to a town where I met my husband, there were plenty to choose from but they were all leading what the jws call "double lives", people outside the cong had better morals but they were made out to be evil. When we left the meetings, our so called friends went too,in fact I often thought if it wasn't for the meetings would I actually choose these people as my friends often the answer being" you must be joking!" so I found myself in my late 30's with no friends and again if i'm being totally honest, not knowing how to make a friend! Thats sad isn't it.
Luckily for me, I have some very lovely work colleagues who know everything I have gone through and actually like me for me and my husband and I have made some nice friends from the dark side, just normal people who truely want to spend time with us because they like us! Not so evil after all!
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Hello Roberta804
Thank you for the hair tip, I will definitely google and see if I can get some! Very kind thought
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Likeabird - Husband is ROFL-ing on floor!
I would pay good money to see someone do that!
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Rosepetal - Thank you for your post, I hope your friends son is still doing well, it is encouraging to me to know we are not the only one to go through this, our children are so precious, it makes me sick to think that I even questioned what to do but I was so brainwashed into thinking I was a bad person to go against all I knew, thank goodness alarm bells went off in my brain but for many it hasn't. All my girls are free and happy and have much better morals than alot of witnesses I know, says alot for the truth doesn't it?
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Ha!Ha! two by two into the ark!
i always knew as a kid tt wasnt for me.
i did not know ttatt but how could something thats supposed to be warm, loving and beneficial feel so wrong?
the light went on when i happened to be watching some chat show that had a family of white supremecists on.
Welcome Awakening Looking forward to the rest of your experiences. I`m new too!
so where do you start?.
i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.
i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.
Thank you for all your kind words, it feels such a relief to have said finally how I feel, my family is so much happier and more together since we left.
It's funny though, after 5 years of not going,we still have the hall keys! ooh! the mischief!!!
