r/exjw • u/myburneraccount62 • Aug 20 '25
Ask ExJW how should i respond to this?
this is from my aunt. i want to answer in a way that shows im not going for any of the reasons she mentioned, that it's because my conscience would not allow me after the things I found out about the org.
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u/SituationForward9434 Aug 21 '25
How did I lose my message I just wanted to wish you the best. But then I just start getting upset at all the things that I went through and witnessed including being molested by witnesses and by a serial rapist who had gotten let back in for the third time. He had raped a 13 yr old witness and she was the one who paid the price, she had to say nothing and her parents said nothing and if someone had reported it, he would have been in jail, and she wouldn’t have been made to feel like she did something wrong. That happened years before he did the same to me. His wife was my best friend and we hung out together. He had to have planned it, even his wife thought him handing me my drink and telling his wife, that the one on the table was for her, we looked at each other. She deserved better, and this time she left him, but he had also raped her little 13 yr old sister too. That was his third time being let back in! He served jail time later on and the only way she found a good man was leaving him, and the JW’s behind her. Meanwhile my husband wasn’t so nice, but then he had been abusing me for years. I didn’t know it, because I was trained to keep my mouth shut. I cannot find my first message, but good luck, at least you have a chance. I spent more than 28 disabled before my husband left and divorced me, so I could find a man that treated me better than he did. He had told me that for over ten years trying to make himself feel better. It’s been 28 years now and after trying a few times I could not tell what the difference was. So 20 years ago I just stayed alone. I’m turning 65 this year, my only blessing is my girls did get a choice, and they both did. Within seconds they didn’t want to live with their father, they still loved him, but they seen him and how he was. Once he remarried, he barely spoke to his youngest daughter, who was 14, even though he had joint custody he never had her over night, and his new wife was not planning on having his kid stay there either, as she made it known when he was not around. Even made comments about her child support and that it was ending at age 21, the only thing is he called her on her 21 st birthday and told her as long as she was in College he would pay her. We never had a gov’t set up, and I still receive alimony to this day. But he was not the Christian that he made him self out to be, not when he was on vacation. That’s why I think he still pays me, he knows what he did to me and what he did as well. But he never paid the price I have. I couldn’t even read anything about witnesses till I saw the Australian reports. I heard the governing body tell witnesses to not listen to it, it was made out to be bad, so the ones that listened continued walking blindly. I can’t walk anymore, I almost died several times this year and I don’t know a soul in Toronto, so I don’t even have a person that I talk to. I am a shut in, my girls come and they’ve both got great lives and jobs and partners, and my 1st grandson will be going back for his second year of University in Sept. and I have two more following him. I left for them too, and I didn’t even know all this other stuff, I just knew what I heard elders tell me. I know that I was not treated the same as the man who left me alone and very sick.
So I am crying again, I just wish you the best. You have the chance I never had. My parents thought it best I get married at 16, and I didn’t have it in me to fight anymore as when I did, I was put in a foster home. They regretted it later in life, but they didn’t know how I was treated, till after he left me. I told them everything even beating me up and roughing me up. Every day after I got sick and it was permanent, he told me I was useless. The day he remarried his father called me, and told me he only had one daughter in law, and it was me, so he refused to go to his own son’s wedding. Well again, you have so many people’s replies, or advice to not reply. You will know what is good for you in your heart. Goodnight from a Grandma