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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous ]Why did you decide to leave JW at age 16?  [/quote]

I felt very uncomfortable with watching families be torn apart. I distinctly recall feeling this around age 11 or so and it just ate at me. It seemed to me that family was an important structure , and seeing as I was in an abusive situation from ages 8-12, it hurt me to see grown children that couldn't speak to parents, siblings that were astranged.  The idea of using fear to keep people in the faith was abhorrent to me, even at an early age. I was already too afraid to report my abuse to my mother (my step brothers were physically and sexually hurting me) and this was another layer of fear.

At age 15-16, when I acted up a bit, my parents made me sit down with four elders of our congregation.  They grilled me. They asked for details regarding a boy I'd made out with.  I was humiliated.  These were people I'd grown up with.  I babysat their children.  I'd done very little,  meanwhile other teens in the congregation were having sex, smoking and drinking with no reprisal.  They never once asked if I was troubled or sad or needed help. They took away all my babysitting and put me on restrictions.  After a year of that, I told me mother I was finished with her faith and to throw me out. They did.  Since I still lived at home, for two year I had to attend worship twice a week,  and no one spoke to me. [/quote]

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