Yes, I went through years thinking I was good as dead and evil. It wasn't until I met my husband and we had our first child that I got over feeling so bad about myself. they gave me unconditional love that I had never had before.
mommy1
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Did your religious belief affect you mentally!!
by haujobbz ini ask this because many religious people i speak to seem traumatised by there x religious beliefs,there minds seem unbalanced not being able to deal with reality.they also tell me they have nightmares about things like end of the world,being at their old church,etc etc,are any of you on here going through things like this.they also seem confused in what do with there lives and in what directions to take.
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The Good Wife's Guide.
by Englishman inthe good wife's guide
originally printed in a 1955 issue of housekeeping monthly and a home economics textbook .
1) have dinner ready.
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mommy1
At my brother's JW wedding the Elder that gave the wedding talk told my sister-in-law not to nag and to cook a nice meal when my brother comes home from work. He told my brother not to say mean things about his wife after all he picked her to marry. My non witness 80 year old Grandmother told me after the wedding "Your Bother must have said something negative about his wife because it sounded like he was getting chewed out instead of married."
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Hardline on disfellowshipped ones
by eyeslice inonce again a hard line is being taken on shunning disfellowshipped and disassociated ones.
perhaps this is some sort of backlash against the recent adverse dateline publicity in the us, the forthcoming pananorama programme in the uk and problems with a number of influential ones leaving the organization.
the text below is from the august km insert and the meeting part is to be handled by a "well qualified" elder with the paragraphs being read by a "capable reader".
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mommy1
I wonder if this hardline includes writing a simple thank you note. My JWbrother got married a couple of months ago and all the other wordly relatives got a thank you note but me and my df mom. We both gave them checks and they were both cashed two days after the wedding. It was such a major deal for me and mom to go to his wedding and now that he is married to "Sister Pioneer " he can't even call to say thanks.
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ABUSED/HARRASSED
by THERESA in; my mother is jw i was 15 years old at the time my mom would go house to house with the wife of the brother and my dad went to work sensce the morning to night this happened over the summer (by the way i never was interested in this religion i thought it was boring and i didnt accept alot of things they did) well anyways back to that summer i was at home alone mom with the sister ,dad at work and the husband of the sister hernandez went to my house told me he wanted to read me the bible we sat down on a table we had outside and started to read the bible as he read he pulled out his penis to me i was in shock and scared i ran inside the house locked everydooor when my mom got home i told her what happened and she called me a lier you acusser you have the devil in you those were her words i told my dad he did nothing sensce my mom was very controlling with him, the next several days he would call and harass me and go knock on all the windows of my house when my mom was with his wife, 5 years later i got married and my hubby and i started to study with them there was a part where the brother said that in the jw they wer clean and perfect and that nobody did anything wrong so i brought up the padst and told them my story the did a little investigation and found 5 other girls who by now were now married and they decided to do a little court and the only reason why they didnt df himn was because i could not describe his penis if it was circumsise or not at that time ididnt even know what that was now i do because i have my kids i told myself how could this religion allowed someone like this be teeling the word of god and putting god first and then doing something so terrible!
now my brother is baptised he dont talk to me anymore because i wont forget about the past and i commit to the jw well his lost .
all my life i felt that my mom never loved me.
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It's amazing how she can wipe the slate clean as they say for him and not for you. I get very angry sometimes too. I have found if I just go into a room and cry and write things down on a piece of paper and just let it out , I usually feel better. I always rip up that paper as a symbol of my strength to get on with it.
Is your Mom still living in the house where sicko exposed himself to you? If it is and you are living right behind it that is like having a constant reminder. I always get nervous when I go by the apartment complex where we lived when I was molested and even though molester is dead I still associate the apartment with him.
Have you been to Silentlambs.org ? It's a good place to go when you need support about sexual abuse from JWs.
Take Care of Yourself Theresa.
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CAN A CHRISTIAN BELONG TO A NUDIST RESORT?
by minimus in.
the may 15, 1962 wt.
states:"therefore no dedicated christian minister can remain in good standing in the new world society of jehovah's witnesses and at the same time be a member of a nudist colony or frequent nudist camps" so if you had to make a choice,what would you do?.
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mommy1
If Adam and Eve didn't eat that fruit, wouldn't we all be running around naked anyway.lol.
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WATCH YOUR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS- THE DEMONS DO
by minimus inthe july 1, 1962 wt.
asks "can the demons read our minds?
"" the demons.
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mommy1
When I was a kid I would never say my prayers out loud because I thought the demons would be listening too and use what I prayed about against me.
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a part of ourselves we neglected
by rodnico inmy mother is coming to visit me next week.
i haven't seen her for over 4 years.
she thinks that somehow i am a completely different person since leaving the organization.
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mommy1
Funny thing my stepmother JW even bought a couple boxes of cookies. Maybe I should turn her in to the Elders.
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a part of ourselves we neglected
by rodnico inmy mother is coming to visit me next week.
i haven't seen her for over 4 years.
she thinks that somehow i am a completely different person since leaving the organization.
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mommy1
As a kid JW I never had just plain old fun. Now as an exJW adult I try to have fun and enjoy my kids. Go to Girl Scout meetings with daughter and yes, even buy,sell and eat Girl Scout Cookies.
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more tales of the abused
by littleangrypolishgirl ini was raised a jw since childhood.
besides the emotional trauma that comes with being an outsider from the rest of the real world, my father was phsically, mentally and verbally abusive to my 2 younger sisters and i. apparently my mother seemd to be so brainwashed with the ideas of respect for headship and all the other bs she didn't do anything about the abuse.needless to say my father was also an elder, sheperding the flock while at home beating his children senseless.
after 20 years of this and all 3 children leaving home by the age of 16,something finally clicked in her head.
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mommy1
Dear LittleAngrypolishgirl, I am so sorry about your sister. I am glad you found this site, hopefully you can find some comfort in knowing there are people out here that care. Best wishes to you.
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to scream or not to scream
by Incense_and_Peppermints injw women have a greater need than jw men to stay ever vigilant and attentive of the watchtower's back and forth rules and regulations which they have the nerve to teach is "new light" from god.
depending on the "new light" from the governing body, if she doesn't scream during a rape, she will be charged by the elders as an adulteress ... someone who may have actually 'enjoyed' the violent act because of her silence.
if another jw woman was raped in 1969 and she didn't scream, she would not be disfellowshipped.
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mommy1
What a terrible thing to put on a witness woman who is about to be raped. If I don't scream I will be disfellowshipped, if I do he will blow my head off?