Posts by dottie

*edited to add* this is a very hard question...there are so many people to chose from...I think the guys from Nickelback would be awesome to party with too...and because they are Canadian of course

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CELEBRATE with me!!!!

by outnfree in

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yay!

i made the dean's list!

as some of you may recall, i decided to finally go to college a year after disassociating myself.

dottie

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I'm so proud of you!!!!!! That's just awesome!!!!! Cheers to you outnfree and also to living the dream of higher education, something we were never encouraged to follow.

many hugs to you!!!

Dottie...of the I hope I do just as well in Nursing class

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I FOUND A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Jesika in

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well, the search is finally over, i found a job.

i am working for a promotional advertising company, and they are hired by other companies like--crayola, harley davidson, bed bath and beyond, disney, etc to promote new products that will be coming out.

so, someone at my level in the company, goes to area businesses and shows them to people and they can buy them at about 80% off what the product will retail for when it hits the stores.

dottie

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WWWWOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!! I am soo happy for you !!! Congrats!!!! *breaks out the bubbly* Cheers to you!

Dottie

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Somebody notice me, hello hello, Im here, Im nice and friendly

by blackout in

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just feeling a little insecure and unnoticed and like an omega in this pond of slime (no offense) and lonely and having had a few chardonnays, unreserved.. yes people i need some attention!!!!

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dottie

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Welcome !!

How are things down unda? Hopefully a helluva lot warmer than here in Edmonton!!!!

Dottie

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The life they stole from me

by sipho in

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i have just come across this website and was amazed to read to many similar experiences to what i went through with the 'loving' congregations of jehovah's witnesses.

i have now been gone 4 years but after reading some experiences i realise that the pain they caused still remains.

i am now quite angry at the way they control your life and brainwash you - i am so glad i finally saw what was happening and got out.

dottie

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Welcome !!!!!

I have found the forum a good place to vent, share and make new friends.

Welcome to your new home !!!!

Dottie

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1st Post

by Angela in

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this is my very first post.

i am 24 year old and i have been disfellowshipped for the last 2 years.

i live in california.

dottie

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Welcome!!!

I hope you find as much comfort and friends here as I have! It's a great place to vent and share

Dottie

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Sharring my secrets..continues..and the end

by kls in

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let me say first i am not telling this for sympothy in any way, my growing up is a lot better then a lot of kids,the horror some of these defenseless babys and children have, the death penalty is to good.the reason i call these threads ..my secrets, is something you dont talk about outside those walls as i am sure other's on this sight can relate to.i am telling my story so many of you can understand why i am trying so hard and long to get my husband out of this sick cult.he is all i have known since i was fifteen.some of you have asked if my parents were jws?

no catholics,some asked why the neighbors did nothing ,no one wanted to get their nose dirty i guess and two neighbors were cops.before i start more of my life ,please when i wright a thread about what ever ...please dont tell me i need to talk to someone or i am feeling this way because of my child hood.if any thing it has made me a strong person in many ways.i as many in simular situations are good at blocking things out and becoming callus to situations.i promised not do drag this on and here i go .all right i will shut up and get on with it.growing up i learned there are, mean drunks, nice drunks, quiet drunks,etc.lucky me mom was a mean drunk.when she did get out of her bed , for her alcohlic delivery,my sister and i would run upstairs to our room and push our beds against the door .i can't say some of the things she had done to me ,it is to hard.notice i said things done to me , i always felt my mother hated me , she always treated me cruel,punishing me for no reason or just letting me know i was worthless.finally during one of her trips out of her room to get the wonder juice delivery, she stopped to tell me how i ruined her life by becoming pregnant with me,i guess the story goes my mother was going to leave my father and one night he raped her and became pregnant with me .oh ya it was my idea to just jump in her womb.any way thats just some .more tid bits of home.living with my syco sister didnt last to long ,my other sister now almost eighteen was married and had a baby, me i was fifteen and pregnant waiting for my sixteenth b-day( pagan) to get married.well got married things were rough but alright till a cult member started to talk to my husband at work, well he told me we got sucked in , after a year or two i felt something was wrong with this so i left it but my husband was trapped.to me i have a much stronger mentality were as my husband who says he had a good childhood is very weak and gullible.next had four great kids (my life) and a husband whose life is work, the hall, and himself.now i am fortyfive all kids grown and gone but one ,he's ninteen.i am always in contact with my next oldest sister,but not with my oldest.

my brother i see a few times a year , and mother, she was constantly put in nut houses and would get out and go soeone would put her back in .

dottie

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Vent away baby!!!!!!!! That's what we're here for!!!

Much Hugs and Love

Dottie

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sharring my secrets

by kls in

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you all are so special, i just finished reading the thread i posted the other day and again you all made me cry(probably girl thing) not in a bad way but in a happy way,sometimes i think i found you guys just in time.so because of your caring i would like to share my life story,no i won,t drag it on.i was raised in a home with two sisters and a brother,i was the youngest ,i am three years younger then one sister ,ten years between my other sister and twelve years younger then my brother.father was a beater,belts,boards but his favorite was his fists,i went to school with plenty of black eyes and lying were they came from.my older sister and brother were married and out of the house and very seldom visited.as kids my brother and sister were beat also so there was alot of tenson when they did visit.so with my one sister and me we take the beatings for them and hide in our rooms hoping we didn,t do any thing to irritate our parents.my mother , i swear she would blow things out of perportion just to see us get beat , i think because she was beat so offen by my dad , i would hear them in my room at night or in the day , the shit would start to fly and we just hid.my parents were both drinkers but usually it was moderate until i was about ten years old and my sister was twelve, the drinking became out of control especially for my mom,fights got more intense till it was like living in a war zone.it got to the point that my mother never left her bedroom and was drunk twentyfour hrs.

a day, not even coming out to eat.my dad ,sister and me would do the shopping and cleaning and cooking.life was ,well for my sister and me was becoming normal .then one day coming home from school ,i see the police, my older sister and brother are there..odd, they are all crying and inform me dad killed himself and they just took his body.

well , we have funeral moms drunk at , and all of a sudden everyone is gone to their own lives while my sister and me are stealing food to live.

dottie

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I now how hard it must have been for you to share your story and you are very brave for doing so. I am very proud of you for sharing with us your past life...I know how hard it is to divulge such personal thought and moments.

many hugs from me to you...

Dottie