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  While you were df'd and coming back to the meetings, did you talk to JWs?

  by asilentone in

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  i was surprised about my df'd friend that sent me an email very recently that he has been going to the meetings for 2 months.

  i would not try to stop him because he loves his jw family too much.

  we were very good friends before he got df'd.

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  Thank You JWD and all you JWD posters!

  by superman in

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  2. friends

  i haven't really looked at this site in the last year (or so), but i can think back to when i first found it.

  it was at a time when i was going through a real transition period in my life.

  and i am sure that this website 'sealed the deal' for my exiting the wtbts.

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  What is your thought in this

  by superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i (who are both faders) were having a discussion the other day about how most of the jw kids who were teens in the 90's have now left the religion.

  i mentioned from personal examples of people i knew, that the one ones who left early (around age 17-19) seemed to end up (though difficult at first) with better lives.

  i knew of several who went to college, or learned a trade, married out of the religion and eventually moved on with their lives.

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  Ministerial servant mentions more "empty nester" JW couples getting divorced

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i was talking to a ministerial servant today, and the subject of marriage came up.

  he said something very interesting, that recently many of the friends he grew up with in the truth (he is in his 30s) are on their second or third marriage.. he also talked about a more recent phenomenon that more empty nester jws (couples whose kids have left home), are deciding they don't want to stay together and are getting divorced.. we're talking about couples who have been married 20, 25, 30 or more years suddenly deciding to call it quits and it's not necessarily that they are looking for someone else; they simply want out of the marriage.. divorce does seem to be on the increase in congregations, especially the last one i attended.. it reminds me of a scripture in malachi we would sometimes hear about "not divorcing the wife of your youth".

  why do you think divorce and separation are on the rise among long time married jws?.

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  When the "wonderful experience" goes wrong.

  by chicken little in

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  I'm perfect you're doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's witness upbringing

  by superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  me and my wife just got this great book from the library entitled 'i'm perfect you're doomed:tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing' writtin by kyria abrahams (an ex-jw).

  i'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned or read it (it's still fairly new), but it is a great book.

  for anyone who was raised in the 'troof' or group up in it you will find it very interesting.

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  We are switching halls...

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think that means that we are going to go to even less meetings and just generally have less to do with the jws because the hall we are at now is where all his friends are... unless somebody tries to take him under his wing and screws everything up.... btw, this was his idea.

  thoughts?.

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  The Biggest B.S. stories you've heard from a talk

  by superman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a few years ago at a convention, they related a story of a jw who was shot during service.

  but rather then stop and get medical attention (like a normal person would have done) they moved on to the next door to finish the street.

  when they got to the house the householder just so happened to be a (you guessed it) nurse!

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  What UNUSUAL MARRIAGES have you seen among JW's?

  by BonaFide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these are couples that i know personally.. a brother i know married a sister 36 years older than him.

  he was 35, she was 71. they are still married 5 years later.

  they do not get along, and they make that known to the entire hall.. a brother that has been married twice and is 50 years old recently married a 19-year old.

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  JW's feel God will destroy all those involved with the military, but when a crisis hits and they come to the rescue, they become a Godsend.

  by kitten whiskers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just had to laugh and shake my head today.. hubby's cousin, an ex-jw too, keeps in touch really well with his folks who are still in.

  they moved south to kentucky to where the need was greater along with some others from our old congregation.

  one couple, very well loved and sweet as pie, moved to south america to where the need was great again.. recently, the husband, was attacked and beaten nearly to death.

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