Hey! Another 36 year old mom here. (Your youngest was born almost halfway between when my two were). DH was lurking over my shoulder last night, and read your post, and he said if you didn't mention your brother and have pictures of your children, he would have thought that I wrote it. He said he had to do a double take just to make sure.

I think any parent that is halfway concerned about their children questions their style of parenting. JW or not. I question my decisions all the time, and tend to second guess myself a little too often. But I really think that there are many non-JW parents who do the same. Look at it this way, you've already given your children a better life than you had, because they won't be raised JW. They won't have the continual fear and guilt to deal with to mess with their heads, and won't have to go around sticking out as different all the time because they're not allowed to do anything. I think the biggest happiness in my leaving is that my children will NEVER have to go through any of that, and lead very normal lives, and have a whole world of things opened up to them to do and achieve that never would have been possible for me.

I don't think I'm making too much sense today. Bad headache. But I just wanted to join with Solica in saying hi, there's not only another one of you out there, there's at least another two.