Well I was a good JW, tried to do things correctly, and to be pleasing in the sight of Jehovah!!
As long as the hours went in every month (and I made sure of that), and the family were all at the meetings on a regular basis and studied, and participating - we thought that would make Jehovah happy, and the elders.
But, it was all to no avail - JWs still treat you like something you just trod in - Mr NW had major surgery - no blood - the first in the western hemisphere!! so what?!
Slowly but surely the children slipped away, (the two eldest) and still we were trying to keep up the standards - then NW did not slip away he turned away - no mistaking - so the two younger ones followed - and then me - I still tried to be the good little JW - but I was so unhappy - no one cared and then I turned my back on the lot of them - and now we are all happy - roll on the next birthday, or whatever - all I know Jehovah is a loving creator, and I am sure that he did not want 'His' 'people' to be so damned unhappy, and be like robots - where is the freedom of choice?
That is another of my ten pence worth of moaning LOL
Mrs NW