Marilyn	Re: Do Your Emotions Come Back When You Leave a...
	dantheman, my husband and I left together which probably helped somewhat.  Plus our neighbours quickly invited us into their lives.  We had 2 small children - another avenue for meeting people and my husbands work colleagues were a sociable lot.  Having a social stucture to turn to helps very much. I have also changed countries a couple of times (since leaving the Org) and I know that all change takes about  2 yrs - especially if the change is very radical  - maybe even longer.   We had been loosing faith for a good three years before we 'down tools' and walked off the job.  When we left we were VERY ready for change. So there weren't a lot of recriminations about whether we'd done the right thing. We were very sure we'd done the right thing. What aspect are you finding the most difficult?  We didn't have the internet in 1981 nor had we met anyone apostates - so we had to sort out the spiritual stuff ourselves. Actually it was our commonsense that prevailed in the end - a kind of gut feeling that the whole thing was terribly flawed.   I guess you are learning very fast from what you are reading here.  So glad your family weren't in.  I've had 20 yrs the shunning thing.  :-( Marilyn.  email me any time   famurf@bigpond.net.au
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