The toll on women..

bluecanary has discovered the correct diagnosis.

These people need a legal reason to get off the gerbil wheel from time to time so all these different maladies come to the surface. We just ran into a woman today who left the meeting early because she didn't feel good. So on the way home she went to the grocery store.

LD

whenever you are stunted in one way or are forced into thinking a certain way your body will "act out" - it knows when something is out of sync.

Spike tassel, are you reading????

S

Oh man, dont get me started on being single and not wanted...lol. There is so much pressure as a JW to marry young. And if you're not married by 18, something is 'wrong' with you. I remember being 17 and people asking me why I didnt have a boyfriend and if I didnt hurry up, Id be 'left on the shelf' and 'past my used by date'. Extreme pressure!

Also, higher education is still looked down upon. I was an intelligent girl, but my parents would not let me go to University. My teachers tried to get me to, but I said no, at that time I agreed with my parents. Eventually I did go to University, some years later once I was an adult. But the entire time I was at University, I was put down and looked down upon in the congregation. It was awful. Now that I have a degree, noone says a word, in fact, they like being able to say I have a degree in......

Yes, I could have told you it is a bad place for women.  I saw that early on.  I wasn't raised in the religion but came in as a young adult.  I work full time.  After the love bombing stage  wore off I came to see the unhealthy attitude towards women - especially single women. 

Even though men's attitudes are bad, I am sorry to say, women are the worst perpetrators of trouble for other women (gossip and the like).  So, I really have little pity for them.  They have all kinds of issues about other women.  Married women are threatened by single women and don't invite them because they are afraid they will take their prize of a man away.  Or they try to target them to do favors.  I ran a gauntlet avoiding these users! 

Once I started my fade, problem over.  I could never go back to this neurotic set-up.

Anybody remember a C.O's wife who was halfway normal ?

love

Wobble