The reason that I am a little afraid is that four out of my five grown children are still JWs and if they knew that I was on here.....well nothing would change, would it, they don't speak to me now. OK, I talked myself out of being afraid. lol
I would like to give my profile but can't seem to find out how to do it. Any help will be appreciated.
I am almost 70 years old/female....have three girls and two boys, 14 grandchildren and going on 3 greatgrandchildren. I got baptized in 1957 and disfellowshipped in 1981. All but three of my grandchildren are JW's so you can see that it seems like I have a pretty small family. I live about 10 miles from one son who has three daughters. The youngest daughter is 8 and I saw her for the first time last week and it was only for about 3 minutes. The other two are 12 and 14 and they don't even know me. It is very sad and when I see pictures of them when they were little (my children, that is) it makes me sorry that I every opened the door, thus my user name.
My first husband, their father, was an alcoholic and not a JW. I basically raised the kids alone. Having an alcoholic husband is like raising another child. The only thing that he did do is to support us. Now that I am df''d the JW kids go to his house and they do things together with him on occasion and it blows me away. Where was he when I was raising his kids? Never once did he go to a school function, or take them anywhere, especially the girls. He would take the boys fishing when they were a little older but that was a little too late. Well, there are more stories but I will wait for another time to cry on your shoulders.