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"While I love my two children very much, I feel today I should never have had them."

by running_away in

this is interesting:.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38145118.

"a whole lot of the time, i just don't like being a mother, and i generally don't fit well into this role.".

running_away

"You just end up looking like an asshole."

Perhaps. That is why it catch my attention this morning in the BBC UK homepage, because nobody talks about that feelings for exactly the same reason. Is something interesting to talk about.

Dont misunderstand me, please. I love my kids, and I am what I am because of them. But, because I went to a full parent really early in life, i just think that from the marriage to the kids I should have waited a little bit more to enjoy life without kids.

No, I don't completely relate to the other views in the article, but is an interesting reading. If evolution is about protect the offspring, why this feelings?

Onager:

"How would you know in advance though?"

Never a jw

"You are wasting your time with the "I could have""

Exactly, there is no point in that discussion. In any case, I love my kids, I can't imagine life without them. But the deepness of the thoughts of that mothers are worth to note, even if we don't agree.

Stephane:

"All I can say now is that my life, while not perfect, is great. Sure I feel that my kids are stopping me from doing certain things, but I also can say that they freed me from watchtower and made me a better man."

Exactly the way I feel...

Thanks for your comments!

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"While I love my two children very much, I feel today I should never have had them."

by running_away in

this is interesting:.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38145118.

"a whole lot of the time, i just don't like being a mother, and i generally don't fit well into this role.".

running_away

This is interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38145118

"A whole lot of the time, I just don't like being a mother, and I generally don't fit well into this role."

" if I could turn back the clock and tell myself what it is like, I'm not sure I'd bother having any. "

"I gave everything I could, did everything I needed to but was it a "joy"? No. If I had my time again I would never have children."

In my view, as a dad, I think that it was too early to bring them. I think I should have party a little bit more before.

Any thoughts?

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Should every J.W. be an evangelizer/preacher?

by The Searcher in

according to the wtbts all 1st century christians were evangelizers/preachers, and by extension, all modern-day j.w.

's should be doing likewise.

(for the moment, let's ignore the org's own contradiction that only their elite anointed class are "ambassadors", and that the preaching work was assigned to them!

running_away

I remember an old sister in my cong preaching:

"Do you know how to read? take! read this!"

Hehe, amazing presentation.

And the membership numbers are low BECAUSE the preaching work that you are supposed to do. So, for the good of humanity against this cult: leave like that.

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What is your story?

by HereIgo in

i thought it would be fun to get to know each other's background a little better.. what brought you into the "truth"?

were you born in?.

what caused you to have doubts?.

running_away

What brought you into the "truth"? Were you born in?

Almost, my mother started when we were very small.

What caused you to have doubts?

As everybody, it's never one small thing, but a lot of small things. I could not explain 1914 only with the bible (and nothing else), and one beautiful morning my 4 years old kid asked me: "that means that Jehovah is going to destroy everybody in my classroom because the birthdays?"... I almost crash the car with that question. That was the "click" moment. From there CoC and jwfacts... and done.

How did you leave? DF? DA? Fade?

Even that the click was about 7 years ago, I'm still in because my super zealous wife. She needs (as me) one click moment, and I have just to wait.

Then, we are going to fade...

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If you could speak to your former self, what would you say?

by LoveUniHateExams in

if you, knowing ttatt, could go back in time and speak to your former jw self, what would you say to wake yourself up from the wt religion?.

i would speak to my unbaptised publisher self.

at that stage, i believed.

running_away

"always check for the reviews of other customers and ex customers"

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This is how to motivate inactive ones!

by stuckinarut2 in

interesting take on how to motivate inactive ones.... https://www.lds.org/youth/video/reaching-out-through-love?lang=eng.

it is interesting to compare and contrast witnesses and mormans....!.

running_away

whiteboard animation with almost the same music?

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/training?cid=HP_WE_11-5-2016_dWEL_fPRST_xLIDyH-3_&lang=eng

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Lost on how to respond...

by babygirl30 in

jw
friends

so an old friend of mine from the congregation hit me up today.

the story goes like this when we were jw's:.

- this guy used to be madly in love with me but i didn't see him as anything more than a friend.

running_away

Hello,

Funny thing about your emails and mistakes from the past. I think about the past. And the mistakes that I have made. And you. And my feelings. And my feelings about you.

Maybe one of this days I will call you. Maybe you are the one who I need to talk to. I will call you soon.

(and then wait for his answer)

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