Xanthippe said: The psychologist my husband and I went to see after leaving the WTS listened to our description of the rules and regulations regarding sexuality even within marriage that JW are subjected to and he said that kind of repression often leads to child abuse. This was twenty-six years ago and we said no there is no evidence of that!
Holy sh!t!.
In my experience with my JW family members and friends of my parents, there is this smiling veneer thinly veiling sadness, guilt, fear, self-righteousness, and anger. There is nothing positive about any of those emotions. Beating oneself up over a self-imposed belief system based on mythology is not reasonable or logical. You cannot expect positive outcomes from something like this.