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Subject: Re: The damage never goes away

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C.L.. (affected for life)

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Date Posted: 21:22:30 08/08/13 Thu
In reply to: JDS 's message, "Re: The damage never goes away" on 18:55:40 03/18/11 Fri

My ex husband and I were in the AOY since the late 70s until around the year 2000.We were still married then of course and it truely was a living nitemare.My children are
grown now and have become physcologically crippled from being brought up in a such an overly strict ,fearful environment such as the AOY.I found most of the men were encouraged to domineer their wives.In my case it became
physical and mental abuse from my then husband. I could not
stand it anymore when I found out He liked men more than me.
I have since leaving the AOY,become very fearful of organized religious groups of any kind .
They did say there was no where else to go amd that if you
left the AOY youd go to Ghenna ,the lake of fire.
when a member, we felt scrutionized every Sabbath. You lived in fear of being disfellowshipped , JOM was definately on a power trip .I hear they play his old tapes
for services still.I dont mean to judge anyone but we sure felt enough judgement from them in the past and as I said
you never get over the damage done. I didnt even go into
details of mental abuse done to members , i cant bear to relive it all.(I am not worried about going to Ghenna since
leaving the AOY) I still Love my Yah and Saviour .I pray that those still in the AOY have their eyes opened and escape the cultish nitemare which controls every aspect of their lives.

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The aoy does NOT have a good reputation
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Date Posted: 20:03:51 03/30/14 Sun

This story is one of the many very sad stories
that we know about. It would be of much interest
to most, the stories that circulate around the
area about the aoy. Even after several years
removed from the aoy, people who have never
been involved after finding out that I was,
ask me very embarrassing questions about the
group.

How long will it be until being free from the
shame that was the aoy?

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