Alec26m

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  Are You Still Bitter?

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  in whatever stage of leaving the organization that you're in, do you find yourself bitter?

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  Alec26m

  Being raised a witness meant either everyone else was a bad influence or later that I was a bad influence. In either case it was a youth where personal relationships always had to exist underground or in some state of disapproval. I was isolated. For that, I'm sad to the extent that I can see that it still affects the way I interact with people. In general I'm recovered and as normal as most 'worldly' folks. Ending the bitterness had a lot to do with seeing the human side of how it all started: my mother was sixteen when her father died of a heart attack -- of course she was going to look for a religion that promised to bring him back. I was bitter at my mother and that was worth getting over.