How many here were thrown outa the house @ a young age by jw parents?

 

How young is "young"? I was 18, straight out of high school and unemployed when I got kicked out. I had to pick up my stuff from the garage, which was stuffed into garbage bags.

 

 

Young enough. ((((((Prisca))))))

I was 16yrs old. Thrown out for having a lesbian relationship.

FD

someone i knew who was studying and engaged to a young jw brother, got thrown out by her catholic family.  another jw family agreed to house her and she promptly fell in love with THEIR son.  ended up marrying him.  alls fair in love.....

wow prisca ... me too .. lol .. (can ya laugh about it yet?)

18 was not much fun, unclebruce

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edit: come to think of it i was thrown out at 14 but refused to go! lol

JW parents are such judgmental pricks (just ask my daughters 

Me, at 16.  I had a car, and i lived in it for a while.  Family problems, and we were all dubs.  My father was the top elder in the cong.  No dubs offered aide of any sort.

SS

I was told at the age of 16 and a half that if I didn't like the rules and didn't follow the rules I could leave.  I went over to a friends house to watch a movie...fell asleep missed curfew...and went home later that evening to find all my stuff packed  and my mom said "you know what you were told now leave".   I tried to plead my case but she would hear none of it and I was banished.

Dottie

WoW!

16 years old when I was thrown out myself, and I was still in Highschool! Same story, had a car and lived in it for 2 months before a counselor from my school notified a "christian" family who accepted me in to their home.

Put it this way, I was a 3.7 gpa student and never ever caused any grief for my home. Never got in trouble at school or outside of school. I worked 4 days a week at a fast food joint, and was involved with various school activities. I was a straight arrow good kid.

The family who took me in thought the situation ludricous and contacted my mother to varify my story...sure enough they were absolutely shocked that I was thrown out for attending a christian (Presbyterian) youth group. 

This is a primary reason I show no sympathy for JW's and their whiney attitude about "religous persecution". In my mind, with my experience to this day, I laugh my ass off whenever I hear a story about their "troubles" in various nations. No tears here, what goes around comes around.

I was 18 when my dad kicked me out, he has the idea that when your 18 his job is done and your gone. To make matters worse he kicked me out 6 months after my mom died, my mother always said that I could stay as long as I like, well when she was gone nothing was in his way and the sucky excuse he used was that my romm wasn't kept clean enough. Of course the reason my room was so messy is that I was working full time and my car broke down so I was working on it every day for a week to grt it fixed. I even went to the elders with him to try and straighten out the whole thing and would you believe he had a note pad with all kinds of crap wriiten down so he could "cover" his bases! The elders were amazed at my fathers attitude and when my father stated that he looked at me as a friend and when I got older I would understand one of the elders put his hand on my knee and looked at my father and said "well if I were Louis I would be very hurt by that", my father didn't say anything. Whew! Sorry for the rant it just gets my blood boiling, after all these years I still don't understand.

I was LITERALLY thrown out of the house when I was only 10. I really can't blame my mom and dad though.......the damn house was on fire!

Not really.

I have never been thrown out but have seen others who have and the few I've seen........didn't do too well.

Gumby

that's not funny gumby i was thrown into a house at 10! .. and seriously - arround the house and out of the house and bashed up in the bathroom ... and  just generally tossed about when the old man thought i looked at him the wrong way or something... bloody abusive parents (and before they became witnesses they were worse!) 

you're one lucky coot if you were bought up in a non-violent home (i'd love to hear your story <-- hint)

unc who broke the cycle.

This doesn't surprise me, but it's still sick.  I'm so sorry for all of your terrible experiences

Beryl 

Obiwan,

You aren't alone! It was his loss. I don't understand how my "parents" could do the same. I use quotes because no real parents could ever treat their child that way! Now when my "dad" says that he loves me I make sure he knows that I don't believe him.

FD

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Kansas District Overbeer

I was disowned at 21!  Does that count???

Kansas District Overbeer

Being disowned definitely counts. I was actually kicked out twice! The first time at 16yr and the second time at 25yr. I had "seen the error of my ways" and gotten baptized, pioneered, blah, blah, blah. I moved in with my parents because I was having open heart surgery and couldn't take care of myself. Three months after my surgery they kicked me out! Not only that, but I too was disowned. Then they made me load a 24ft Uhaul by myself! I think they wanted me dead!

FD

Kicked out at 17 (just before 18th birthday).  Actually knew I'd be kicked out when I said I wasn't going to be a Witness anymore, so I had already moved some of my stuff before I told them.  Told my mother that I didn't want to be a Witness, she said "find another place to live," I said that I already had.  Went back for the rest of my stuff and, like others in this thread, it was packed in garbage bags.  The biggest piece of garbage was the bible my mother slipped in.

Anyway, I moved back in when I was 19 and became active again and stayed a witness until I was 25 or so.  No one can say I didn't give it a shot.

Dedalus

This is absolutely astounding. I had no idea this kind of thing went on. Jaysus!

Prisca - What did you do next?

UncleBruce - That young? My god, aren't there any laws down there?

All of You - I'll be damned if I know what to say...or think. This is just too much...and all of it from people who are supposed to prove themselves disciples by the "love" they have "among themselves." My God, if you can't love your own minor children, what the hell good are you? What kind of person could push out a minor child and then go to sleep at night?

{{{{{{{{{{All Y'All}}}}}}}}

How do you overcome such a thing? How many of you have been in therapy? My parents don't speak to me and haven't for twenty out of the last 23 years, but I was a grown man when we parted company - and still I went to therapy in order to help me deal with the anger.

I'm astounded. What strength you folks must have now.

With a Great Deal of Respect,

francois

Tossed out at 18 by my wonderful elder dad,and the woman who never knew when to shut her mouth,my good dub mom..I have nothing to do with either of those selfrightious hypocrates....My children are grown,have never been tossed out,and are always welcome home...OUTLAW