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In Reply to: Was I an exception to the rule? posted by Perry on August 25, 2004 at 19:00:11:
Your question is poingnant but I think it shows not you being an exception but the MO of TF about separating couples for their own purposes. Interestingly, I was in a similar situation. Actually my family because of me. They needed me for different reasons and I knew a little bit too much about this particular country. So they kept me "happy" but I knew they would not hesitate to dump me and I saw the handwriting on the wall. So, I jumped the gun on them.
But at that point I have had been looking at my fragile position for about one year, and had seen many indications of how I was being singled out for hardship on tasks and schedules.
Another important point is that I left from that home, after a long cleaning process. I first relaized early on that MO was a normal person and not a prophet. Then I realized that he was not a normal person but a manipulative psycho. I stayed because I still believed in the message of changing the world with people I saw as sold out as I was.
Then, when I found out most of the leaders were little hitler wannabes and that most of the followers were sort of zombied out, I realized that I was in the wrong place.
It sounds simple but it took me quite a few years and bad leaders who didn't know the difference between a chocolate bar and the toilet seat.
Anyway, I can see that my case is similar to yours and it is probably more common than we think or realize among WS people. Their problem may be to have forgotten how to fly after wearing that chain for so long.
To paraphrase another poster, good people trapped in bodies of zombies.
