i had an interesting evening....with a great 10 yr. old

by oompa 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • oompa
    oompa

    i reached out tonight....told my jw wife i was going to a friends house to watch a basketball game....which was true...but also told her that the invite came from a kid who loves me and his dad is df'd....the invite was really from the dad, but the kid did want to see me...poor kid still has to go to meetings when he is with the jw wife btw...i love this kid and always have...

    so anyhoo........his new wife...jewish btw...was totally informed on my situation...and so .......crap i can not think of the word...but she understands pretty well the weird marrige i have now that i am out and my wife in still a jw......she gets the shunning thing of course...since her jw inlaws are absent of their life.....

    and this kid i love...since he was was born.... has always had some probems ..he is only ten now.......and is A.D.D times ten....his attention span was just god awful but he is now better..ya..on meds a bit....but back when he was little...and i helped his parents out by keeping him during the meetings...he would just frikkin wear them out!.....i learned that i had to put more and more items in my suit coat pockets to keep him busy as he sat in my lap...i mean they were frikkin loaded up with gadgets...toys...candy....tietacs..leggos...paperclips....ANYTHING that would keep him busy......

    so now......after 7 or 8 years of this kid being out of our congo....i am the only one he even remembers......really...the only one i found out tonight........i am the only one who who has stayed in touch because i did not shun his dad...or even his mom who ran off with another guy.................this is a great kid who does not deserve the loss of all the other friends he should have had growing up.............pathetic...............oompa

    oh...and i reached out...not by seeing the kid...but by having an evening with a dfd friend despite my jw wife...and btw...she likes this kid too...but will not visit....

  • Awakened at Gilead
    Awakened at Gilead

    Good for you oomps... live your life, whether your JW wife wants to live a normal life or not...

  • dinah
    dinah

    Thats messed up. He's a KID for christsake!

    See, kids remember attention. You made that little boy feel important and worthy of attention. You're a good man, Oomps.

  • BabaYaga
    BabaYaga

    This post made me smile, Oomps.

    Thank you.

  • no more kool aid
    no more kool aid

    That is so wonderful that you have an interest in this child. Sounds like he has a lot of strikes against him, Mom and Dad are divorced, he has steps to get used to and he has ADD. But I think that the worst of it is that he will not fit into mainstream JW kids because of all of the above, but he still has to go. Good on you.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Phew!

    Oompa, I opened this thread with a little misgiving.

    YOU ARE A GOOD MAN.

    Sylvia

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Oompa..Cool Story..What a good guy!!.....If I thought you had Leggo`s at a meeting,I`d sit next to you.....I`m way too big to sit on your lap at 200lbs..LOL!!..

    Laughing Mutley..OUTLAW

  • Priest73
    Priest73

    Shit. I thought this thread might have been about scotch.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Priest73..I`d be more than willing to sit beside Oompa at a meeting,if I knew he had Scotch.....Scotch and Leggo`s at a meeting,would make Kingdom Hall`s a lot more enjoyable!

    Laughing Mutley...OUTLAW

  • Priest73
    Priest73
    Scotch and Leggo`s at a meeting,would make Kingdom Hall`s a lot more enjoyable!

    I would'nt go that far, but I would have to have my "medicine" to endure one of those again.

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