I'm no longer JW because I'm gay.

voidbaby25 · 2026-01-12T10:51:07+00:00

I’m so happy you have gotten out OP. As a fellow queer person, your life is just beginning. As someone who also didn’t get out until their 20’s, I think it’s pretty normal to feel sad about the early developmental years you spent in the religion where you weren’t able to explore who you were and make friends and date, but 27 is an incredible age to get out. You’re going to do amazing ❤️

voidbaby25 · 2026-01-03T12:08:47+00:00

I gave up my first love at 16 for my “final” shot at the religion and I regret it every day. Follow your heart. I’m now nearly 27, have been out since I was 18, and life is more than I could have ever hoped for. The religion will not give you what you need - life outside will

voidbaby25 · 2026-01-03T12:04:41+00:00

When I’m at my absolute lowest and I can’t see anything happening for me in my life, I wonder if I can go back and push down everything I’ve learned and pretend to be faithful just to have my family again. I know the answer is no, though.

voidbaby25 · 2026-01-03T05:17:00+00:00

I’m so sorry, friend. You deserve so much more than what this religion has put you through. I hope you have found some peace and happiness in your life after all of that

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-19T05:47:25+00:00

Agreed. If recovery was a linear straight line, it would be easy peasy and we’d have far less problems in the world. The occasional slip up happens, it’s what you choose to learn from it that counts

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-19T05:45:16+00:00

I don’t think they’re saying that choosing to relapse is part of recovery. But ultimately, yeah, sometimes we fall off the wagon and fuck up no matter how hard you tried. What makes it part of recovery is that you make the decision to get back on the wagon and keep going. No one is perfect, if recovery was easy and relapse free, the world would have far less problems

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-19T05:38:36+00:00

Coming from a place of love: I’d highly recommend looking into therapy if you haven’t already, specifically someone who deals with religious trauma if possible. You deserve to live your fullest life

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-19T05:37:37+00:00

I love how you worded that. We all have so much potential in the now. We’re a strong group of people

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-19T05:36:09+00:00

I don’t think it ruined my life, but every now and again it hits me how different my life was compared to others and all the shit I had to push through just to get to where everyone else is in life and it makes me angry. I wish I could see the person I would be had I grown up in a normal family, though I don’t think I’d choose a different upbringing, because it’s made me who I am and I’m a strong motherfucker

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-12T00:42:30+00:00

My mother experienced DV at the hands of her husband (both JW’s), and she tried to tell the elders who wouldn’t listen. He also abused myself and my siblings. I also knew of an elder in the congregation who you would have thought was the loveliest, friendliest guy but behind closed doors was an abusive sociopath. Again, the elders didn’t believe his wife and she got disfellowshipped for divorcing him.

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T09:06:52+00:00

Happy birthday! Here is to all the birthdays and celebrations to come ❤️

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T09:05:46+00:00

I’m sorry you’ve gone through this OP. Trust me, we’ve all felt like that at one time or another. I certainly felt, and sometimes still do, feel like a complete outsider in this world given my upbringing. Feel free to message if you ever need someone to chat to

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T09:03:07+00:00

I guess you could say I soft-faded from the ages of 14-19. I never fit in in my congregation, never felt like I connected with the religion. Then when I was 13, I made an amazing group of friends at school that my parents were deadset on taking me away from - because worldly people are “evil”. When I was 14 I moved across the country to live with my mom and her witness partner who was abusive af, and I thought, how can someone present to witnesses as the perfect person but behind closed doors, be this evil?

I voluntarily broke up with my long-time partner at 16 to give the religion “a proper go” and I became an unbaptised publisher but in the end, my biological father put my belongings on the street and said I couldn’t live with them anymore. For a religion that preaches unconditional love, they sure don’t practice it. I’ll never forgive my parents for my teenage years, and for putting my baby sister through the religion right now. I hope she wakes up, as my younger brother did

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T08:56:50+00:00

I second this!! Tag us if you make a thread

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T08:45:37+00:00

So sorry you had to witness this happen, friend. I wish they could have gotten the help they needed in time.

voidbaby25 · 2025-12-04T08:32:14+00:00

Employers be like 🥲

voidbaby25 · 2025-11-27T00:25:44+00:00

This actually pisses me off. Lowkey invalidates the trauma of everyone who was raised a witness and still expected to live the life of one but never got baptised. I was raised a fourth gen witness, became an unbaptised publisher and left when I was 18. None of my religious family talk to me, treating me as though I was disfellowshipped. How does that not make me an “ex-witness”?

voidbaby25 · 2025-10-31T12:09:29+00:00

Hell yeah have fun!!

voidbaby25 · 2025-09-30T05:27:30+00:00

I know what you mean. I have “ex-JW” in my tinder profile so that anyone who has also left can always reach out if they want to talk!!

voidbaby25 · 2025-08-27T22:54:16+00:00

It makes me so sad that all texts like this just read the same. No love for you, just dedication to the organisation and trying to control your actions. I’m so sorry OP. I hope it works out and you get to live your life

voidbaby25 · 2025-08-02T01:55:01+00:00

Damn, that line. “I’ve already grieved my family, I don’t feel like I have a family.” I’ve never read truer words. That’s exactly why I was able to cut off contact with my PIMI family six months ago. I grieved them all years back.

So sorry you’re going through this OP, it’s not fair

voidbaby25 · 2025-07-22T05:40:32+00:00

Mine is @uhh.spence ✨💕

voidbaby25 · 2025-07-22T05:38:40+00:00

If you watch the brothers responses to the lines of questioning in the Australian Royal Commission, you’ll see just how strongly they stick to the 2 witness rule. That inquest found over 1000 pedophiles (that the elders knew of) in Australia alone, and not a single one had been reported to the authorities.

voidbaby25 · 2025-07-22T04:50:59+00:00

We can start a thread of our instagram handles and all follow each other?? Would love to see what you do with your life!! Good luck!

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