My mother became a Jehovah’s Witness when I was three, left my dad for Jehovah and moved us several hundred miles away from him. Her new congregation almost immediately paired her with a young new brother and within the year, they married. He immediately attempted to get me in line with what he thought a young Jehovah’s Witness daughter should be, distancing me from my real dad and forcing me to refer to him as “dad”, and my real dad as “my father”. My mother was happy to give him the responsibility of financially providing for us and taking care of my discipline. In becoming the submissive wife, she was becoming how she thought Jehovah wanted her to be. Read the full story

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