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Ben and Miriam are Dutch...

Posted by Hey not just Swedes there mini on October 13, 2002 at 16:55:33

In Reply to: Re: Some of the worse bitches posted by Mini Mouse on October 13, 2002 at 16:32:07:

But I remember a bitchy Swedish Pearl and her American partner in Gothenburg, Sweden. Wonder whatever happened with them? They did the craziest crap. Those survival trips of faking break ins in the middle of the night and then gathering us all together after staging mock breakins at 2-3 am. And dealing with us sessions. It became so frequent that one guy freaked out, as in had a break down. He was Swedish, blonde, a gemini, I think Benjamin? not sure. Anyway, he left during a breakdown process and ended up being helped by salvation army. When I was in G. and Karlstad, there was Chenaniah and her husband. My kids got whooping cough. The middle one was passing out and turning blue and she had a meeting discussing that I was too occupied with the kids and the home should vote whether or not I should go out litnessing. During this, he had a coughing attack and quit breathing. He is in my arms and his eyes are dilating. I stuck him out the window for the cold winter air and such to revive him. She continued with the vote which of course went her way. (Who would vote otherwise against a leader, that would be Judas). All three of my kids were sick with it. They were 3, 2 and 4 month old! I was the only one watching them at night, and could not sleep. Finally I said that I would go to the hospital, that the Swedish hospital system would take us, but I was not going to leave them alone. The Swedish hospital did take us and the kids and I were in the hospital together for quite awhile. She (Chenaniah) even came up there to ask for us to stay longer (asked the doctors) as they were going to be having a conference!! I would have probably left but I held on for way too long to that saying: "The darkest hr is just before dawn." "Don't quit before the miracle". I was told new leadership was coming in. They did. And they dethroned the current. I saw this process over and over again until I was about to break myself, and then I GOT OUT. Especially with kids about my boys age being ready for shipment out to family schools. Horrors of horrors, worse than before. I left on an impulse. Despite all the hardships and lack of support upon leaving I WILL NEVER REGRET GETTING OUT! It was the right thing to do. You couldn't be assertive in the family. You had to be bitchy as a woman, or submissive, or dissociated as much as possible, which often wasn't possible... Were you in Sweden, minni? I may know you. Hope I was never a bitch to you. But my leadership stint there was on a low level and very brief.