background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .
our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.
my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!
Very difficult for you and your family.
This was the phrase that struck me
You know we've talked to you about this before, but I guess you don't care what we think.
I guess she doesnt care about what you think either.
On a positive side, my mother didnt speak to me for 5 years, then she got in touch with me through my sister , though half the while she is still trying to get me to go back.
i am so tired of waking up without hope.
so tired of fighting one more day...i just want it to end as painless as possible.
i truly don't have the willpower or strength anymore..
loubelle.
youve had a very tough year. I've been reading up your posts. Keep believing in yourself. You're trying hard and that WILL pay off in the end. Good luck. I'm watching out for some good news soon from you.
In the meantime, heres a big cyberhug..
criminal damage to jehovah's witness building in felpham .
23 april 2013. .
police are appealing for witnesses after the jehovah's witness kingdom hall, flansham lane in felpham was subjected to religiously aggravated criminal damage overnight between thursday 11 april and friday 12 april.
Why doesnt anybody seem sad about this?
special assembly day (sad) bethel speaker ( a very good speaker i might add) in his talk " follow your spirit-directed conscience gave example of and elder and his family.
he noticed his wife and daughter spending a lot of time morning noon and night on facebook, it almost seemed like that is all they did, so as a spiritual head decided to see what they were constantly looking at, "let me see what you are spending so much time looking at on facebook said the elder".
the wife explained this is how we keep in contact with the "friends", elder started to look at her page and she was correct, there he found friends in the cong.
i once through an album away after a talk on unscriptural music.
later, i regreted it and went out and brought another one.
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i like the reasonning. thank you
my mother asked me if i was thinking about it and how bad it will be in the near future.
i said i didn't give it a thought.. is it something you ever think about, now?.
at first i used to think about it, but that has been such a long time ago now.
age-old question.
complicated x1,000 if one or both of the persons is married/in a serious relationship.. i am skeptical.
very skeptical.
personally, i can not imagine me inviting another woman to a platonic lunch. I guess that given certain exceptional circumstances, I may invite someone to have an unplanned lunch with me. but fixing a rendez vous is just another word for a date imho.
you know those articles from the wt are coming, along with emails from jw friends and family.
all the shameless self-attaboys, and fictitious observations by non-jws remarking on how jws provided the most and best assistance to the victims..
They always say that. They were saying it 30 years ago. Nothing has changed. You may have noticed that there will be no public recognition, thanking the borg for their fast response. I guess thats proof enough of their disalusion.
i was just wondering i have a friend who is getting divorced.
she is 32yrs old and has 4 children ranging from 10 yrs old to 18 mths old and i wonder if she can ever really date again?
she's a really pretty woman but still i wonder.
Sounds like mrs P when we met, though she only had 3 children.
There are no rules. Weve been together for 15 years. No regrets. I love my step children as much as my own, and they me.
Life is wonderful.
We have often said that our past lives, before we met, seem now but as a dream; as if we are spectators watching another, different couple.
JLP.
actually forgot about it.
could someone post a link to the thread with the outline?
just in case my mother asks...
"Forgot about the special talk"
Well thats about the best thing you could do with it.
