Beth a lot of us feel the same way when visiting in here and reading of yet another person who has been damaged by that darned religion. I think there are days we can read them and not get cross ... there are days when we're livid and want to lash out at hypocrisy of that religion ... and days when we simply roll our eyes and say 'yep ... been there ... done that ... got the badge".

I will never shake the religion off my back until my parents and older bro pop off the perch and even then it'll still be floating about as the memories of the past are not always so easily erased. I've been out of the religion for 30 years this December and I have NO regrets. I didn't have such a great network to fall into when I first walked out and felt very much alone and to some degree even felt a little guilty for thinking ill of lumping JWs in the same basket. Since bumping into former JWs in real life and reading various stories in here since joining ... I don't feel guilty at all for anything negative I've said about that lot anymore! No they're not all the same ... yes some are really nice ... but no ... I don't believe their crap and will never subject my boys to it either.

You'll work your way through this mood and come out on top every time honey. You now have the freedom many JWs are too frightened to aim for ... and you've given your boys that freedom too