Some of you may or may not know but I came out before my husband. He has not been to the meetings in 4 years but still acted like a witness. I know it has been hard on him as he was raised a witness and I was not. Christmas has always been difficult for me since I celebrated it until I was 13 and then my mom drank the koolaid. So that was my last Christmas. However, for our family it had no religious significance and was just a time for family to get together. I wanted to incorporate that into our family and was going to put up an x-mas tree last year but my husband pouted and freaked out. In short I compromised and we had a family day the week after Christmas with an origami tree. This year I thought I was going to be okay and we took a family get away last weekend and surprised our daughters with presents. However, this past weekend was very hard on me and I was extremely depressed. I literally stayed in bed from Saturday night until today. He took our daughter to the movies yesterday and I stayed home. Today we had a looooong talk and he said he can see why I was frustrating him as he is not a witness, does not go to the meetings but still wants to live the life a witness. He wants to go out tonight and get a tree and decorations for next year.....He is finally over it.....he wants to start a new life with just us and not worry about what other people think....
Just wanted to share. So if any of you have a mate who's still mentally captive remember there is hope! Hang in there everybody! and Merry X-Mas!!!