Hello everyone!! I've been watching from the sidelines for a while... reading about your experiences and it has helped me a lot!!!
I am a 27 yo girl, i converted into a JW @ 20, at was going thru a difficult time in my life and they bastards sucked me in!!! i did not realize how controlling things were going to get... about 1 year into my study i moved w another single sister and then baptize, looking back i think i went thru w baptism because i fell pressure by the "loving" congregation that wanted the best for me... i remember coming out of the pool and one of the brothers saying "another victim" and taking a pic of me... anyways, that wasn't the worst of it.... remember single female!! EVERYONE was looking for a husband for me! i am an independent thinker and always has been (except for when i fell for their lies) i wanted to finish college and get a great job, i was raised w a nice life and the whole don't work just preached crap wasnt flying w me... well i felt like a failure because i had doubts all along, but everytime i would go to the elder i was told to pray and go to service... i was BORED to death and felt into depression... became a pioneer to have them off my back.... then it was "Oh you are such a great example to the cong" "Oh what a spiritual sister"... well a started fading... i had created the perfect way out, i started "helping" where was needed and had to go on sat and sun to serve at a cong far from my original one, then i went on vacation to another country for 3 weeks and never went back to the meetings... i've never been happier!!!
I still see some people sometimes at the store or around the area, i am not DA or DF just inactive (or so they think) but they look at me and give me the judgemental look... so much for "brotherly love"
Now w a Free!! mind i am ready to finally lear the truth about the "truth"