So let me preface this by saying I am sympathetic to all here and the various circumstances that cannot all be brought into account on one post. That being said, we are all ultimately responsible for our own decisions in life. Period. I get that our thining and culture manipulate a value system, but people all the time do things contrary.
I personally didn't go to college. Wish I would have but I didn't. I could have if I really wanted to of course. I ended up being able to take care of myself financially better than most. I met my wife in the org, and have a great kid. I love them both. I have some great friends (some still JW's some not). My wife has supported me thus far, and I believe she will continue to do so with love and understanding.
I learned how to speak in front of a group of relative strangers when I was 5 and kept on doing it until recently. I turned skills I learned in overcoming fear at the door into a succesful sales job before opening my own company. I have a sense of things greater than myself and was taught confidence tempered with humility. My parents were good ones, that taght me to care for others less fortunate than myself, JW or not.
There is plenty of bad, and deprogramming. Guilt, etc... But I can't say I would be dealing with any less of those issues if I wasn't a JW.
I don't know, I feel like blaming anyone but me, keeps me from moving forward. You dig?
