What were some of your most stressful experiences in life? For me it was moving to a new place where people were not friendly and hospitable, though not aggressive some people think being unfriendly is a passive form of aggression. Having to start again in such an unfamiliar environment is a very tough option. I could have made things easier by having a girlfriend in this cold society, that ws easy enough, but I chose not to.
Stressful experiences
by greendawn 4 Replies latest jw friends
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parakeet
Being a JW pegged the needle on my stress meter. Coming in a distant second was a hostile work environment.
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greendawn
Being a JW pegged the needle on my stress meter
That is a fact of life for most JWs except for the few smart ones that really know how to play the system and profit out of it. Otherwise it is an org that always demands and never gives and even worse it is totally thankless for what it receives, it never says thanks and nothing is ever enough.
Keeping to so many rules to keep up a good image before the rest of society so as not to bring dishonour on jehovah.
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fullofdoubtnow
All the most stressful experiences of my life were jw related. It used to stress me out trying to make my pioneer hours, preparing talks, sitting through hour after hour at assemblies, and never, ever feeling good enough to be a jw, however hard I tried. I didn't realise how stressful the jw life had been until I had left it behind me. Nothing much stresses me now, apart from when Trev occasionally has to work away, and even those times are minor compared to my years as a jw.
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dido
Most stressful thing is when i got divorced, and then DF (naughty girt i know), but life in the cult was stressful the whole time. I was married to an unbeliever, bringing up kids that were torn both ways, keeping to all their pathetic jw rules, down to what programme you can watch, etc., Now my life is stress free, i treat every day as if it were my last, that way i find i don`t waste them!