It's the same old story with fence-rider
I'm sickened to my stomach dealing with someone that continues to hate.I've done much for what others have suggested...and you all do help me stay focused.It became another game for my sister to show...
View ArticleMeet a friend, but
We both have a passon for music. And we are going to start a sludge metal band. Thing is he used to be a gang member, and while he's turned his life around after being locked up, I still worry. I...
View ArticleFence-rider attacked me yesterday
I'm so sorry for writing this...although I know you offer support. She was unhappy with my response to her thinking she was helping me after I had called her for helping me...then she would choke me...
View ArticleDealing with the community who doesn't understand.
I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness but have since moved on for at least 24 years now. I have major family problems with my husbands children and his ex wife for 20 years now because I was raised as...
View ArticleHurt, betrayed by a JW
I don't know where to turn, or who to talk to. I'll start here in the hopes someone can say something, anything, to help. My ex, with whom I have a 2 year old daughter with, decided to join the JW's a...
View ArticleJust feeling sorry for myself...
My wife is now really beginning to know how I feel about the "truth". And so is my son. I think he is heading same direction. It is not as dramatic as I thought. It may help her in all reality. I was...
View ArticleWhen it Rains
Don't mean to dump on you guys, but I just need to vent. A few months ago my husband, Don was going to the VA hospital for chest pains that come and go. They didn't see anything obviously wrong with...
View ArticleWhat do you think?
For the first month back in my old congregation ( I was un sign language), two elders were "trying" to help and encourage me. They know what has stumbled me. As I said earlier on this forum,...
View ArticleOn being a mother to my mother
I have my elderly mother living with me. Apart from some financial support from my sister in a far away country, I carry the load. It can be exhausting at times -- and downright scary, daily facing a...
View ArticleBeen going throught a lot lately.
I was diagnosed bipolar when I was 13yrs old before any religion. Right now I am having my meds re adjusted and it is a very different time in my life right now since "waking up". I have been binge...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Sun Returns/Save me from myself
Greetings, good folk,Some of you doubtless remember me as "Dean," which is actually my middle name..but I was making an attempt at switching from my proper name "Rodney" and the various baggage it...
View ArticleBreast Cancer
Knowing I'm not the only one that has dealt with such...I'm getting down to having surgery. If not for some of our members that have gone through the same...I actually feel good.I have a wonderful...
View ArticleSharing a Request for HELP
Hi,I’m not spamming, I am trying to HELPChris from Yuku, she has helped us all, she works behind the scenes at Yuku and now needs a Life Saving Surgery from a tumor in her neck. I am posting this to...
View ArticleLooking for Mental help In LA
I disassociated last year with my wife. Relationship problems have come to a cresendo. She does not know who I am. I barely know. I have two-three completely separate thought processes running in my...
View ArticleMaking Friends????
I have been having some issues being able to find friends due to the constant "bad association" thing that we were all taught. I have no problem talking with people or getting to know them, it is only...
View ArticleGoing to Chruch
Well, I am going to church tomorrow for the FIRST time ever to attend services. My partner has been wanting to go for sometime but knows how jaded I've become as an ex-JW. It is the Holy Trinity...
View ArticleInteresting weekend and vacation
We went to go see the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit in Los Angeles this weekend, really cool. Highlight of my weekend. Anyways we get back and I go pay a bill I come to my in-laws were my wife was at, I...
View ArticleNephew's Engagement Party
My step-nephew just got engaged (hurrah!), and is having a small gathering. He is not and never has been a JW. I was invited to the engagement party, and accepted. My JW dad (who has really been like...
View ArticleNew Discovery
I recently discovered something that made so many things fall into place about my mother. I have spent most of my life trying to pin down what was wrong with my mother. Was she depressed? Bipolar?...
View Articlefence rider, again
Well, she called today from her safe haven in Ohio.I was running errands so she spoke with hubby. Fence rider refused giving us her telephone number/address. She would however tell my husband how...
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