Welcome!!!
I find so much comfort here knowing others understand. So many have been shunned by family because they found out the "truth about the truth"! I was a JW for 23 years and my husband and I did the slow fade when we saw our children unhappy in school. It brought bad memories of our own school days.....sitting in the hall alone while everyone else ate birthday cake......sitting on the other side of the room while everyone ate candy canes and sang christmas songs in music class.
My Dad (who was never a JW) was in the military and I went to school briefly in Germany. My Mom wouldn't let me salute the flag on the military base! It was so awful.........always being the odd one.
JW children really have it hard in school. We had to be different for Jehovah and stand up for our beliefs! Thats hard when you are soooo young and all alone with all the children making fun of you. I never liked this God Jehovah from an early age but never even dared to tell my Mom. The straw that broke the camels back was when she having bible study with me and pointed to the picture in the paradise book of men and women and animals, cement stairs and bikes falling into the earth at the end.....she said I would be destroyed like that along with my Dad if I didn't listen to her and Jehovah.......never cared for Jehovah since....
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