I Am An Ex Jehovah's Witness

I was born and raised as a Jehovah's Witness with only my mom and my younger brother in the house as members. My father, while he would sometimes study the publications, go to meetings and to the yearly Memorial, never entered this...

I've been a dedicated and baptized JW for over (4) decades, and have learned a great deal of what this "Christian Denomination" thinks are Bible Truths, but have come to the conclusion that whoever this Governing Body who reside in...

It's a little complicated how I ended up disassociated from Jehovah's Witnesses. I got caught up in something I wasn't supposed to be doing and when I went to the elders and told them what was going on I decided that I didn't want to...

I am an ex-JW not because I took issue with any doctrinal beliefs.  It would be nice to say I was that devote, but my reasons for leaving were much more selfish, extreme unhappiness in my marriage. As most witnesses I...

I was born in 1949 to a Jehovah’s Witness family. My mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, all my uncles, and all my aunts were 2nd generation JW’s. I was a wild child in some ways during my teens and left home very young. I...

I am a 4th generation witness and my young kids 5th... while serving as a MS in the cong and studying with a young man we discussed the blood issue... I went and did extra research and was surprised how much had actually changed also...

am an ex JW from kenya...........was brought up by JW parents until when i joined campus idediced enough is enough. I dint have happiness. I tried dating a JW who apparently was living a double life and it did not work......after 2...

Hi all,

my name is Nadia Powers and I first want to say I'm really inspired by all of you former JW's coming forward and telling your stories. I'm so happy we all chose freedom for ourselves.

I'm 20 years old, and I was born to two...

After I'd been not attending the meetings for a couple of months, the JWs two day convention came up. I hadn't disassociated myself yet.

My mom asked me to drive her to the convention and pick her up later when the program for the day...

I've been away from The Jehovah's Witnesses for 1 month. Does it ever "leave" you? Is it always there, a part of you... like if you are in a store, and you see the little horoscope rolls at the cash register do you go back to your...

I was a jehovahs witness. I was very young, probably pre-school age. My earliest memory (of which I have very few) is of my dad returning our xmas presents to our relatives.
We all as a family, both parents and 5 kids, had started on...

I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, my mom joined when I was about 2yrs old. I didn't have a horrible childhood, I was lucky enough that my family was part of the "in crowd" in our congregation. Which meant bible studies were fun because...

What's up guys!
For the first nineteen year of my life I was a JW. I was born into it and it was all I knew. So I know how hard it is to to stop being a JW, especially when you were raised as one your whole life. You are yearning to...

I to was born in as a jw .Got married to the first girl i had sexual attraction to and then used alcohol to numb the pain of my mistake.Then after not attending meetings for years .when i divorced her she went to the elders andtold...

Well, I gave the elders my letter of disassociation this past Saturday. They told me that I will be treated as someone who is disfellowed and that means I can't have any interaction with my mom who is a JW.

Now someone please tell...

What does it mean to "have been" a Jehovah's Witness?  Hahahahaha!!!!  It means something different for everyone!!!

For me it means getting away from ignorant, unthinking people who congregate together way too many times a...

Being disfellowshipped is a death sentence in their eyes but worse you are shunned!  I see people who have known me since I was eight years old that still shun me and they inform the new recruits to shun me too.

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Hi. Im a 24 year old who has been disfellowshipped for a over a year and a half. I will never forget the day I decided I was leaving. I had just moved into my own apartment and was sick and tired of living a double life. I woke up that...