I started studying when I was 17 or so and soon after married a man who was raised as a witness but never did anything with the truth. I thought that Jehovah would bless us and make everything okay, that maybe my husband would miraculously be able to run our household and we would be so happy because we were "better" than other couples, we were too good to live in the world. But obviously that came crashing down when I realized that your life is what you make it. Today unfortunately my marriage is failing due to my husband's multiple emotional problems which I believe are due to his upbringing as a witness. But besides that, I am the happiest I have been in so long. I feel like I have found myself again, and have reunited with friends and family that I had lost when I entered that world. Even though I was never baptized, there are of course many scars I bear from even the short time I studied, but I finally have my life back.