Glad to see new channel. My wife and I just left the organization March 2024. I think we gonna have to put our video on KZfaq aswell

Hey from Metro Atlanta (Conyers). I dropped out of Georgia State University and was in the cult for 35 years. Woke up in 2021. I'm so glad you woke up early. I'm not bitter but life would be more comfortable had I finished my education and not worked part-time to put in more time in field service.

Welcome to the EXJW community!!! It's so sad Taylor's mom is missing out on having a relationship with her grandchildren. But the plus side is your children get to live a life without limiting their potential or ambitions. You get to be parents who can actually love your children unconditionally.

I loved that yall said you’re still the same people. That’s one thing that has always been so apparent in the jw community, they assume your crazy, or mentally unstable when you leave. As if it’s impossible to change you’re belief systems and still be sane. I’m proud of y’all both for telling your stories. And reminding so many that were not alone in such isolating circumstances .

I commented earlier, but I have to say sorry for your loss. I was born into this cult in the 70s. I always had doubts but stayed in... not wanting to disappoint my parents. I got baptized at 32... yes 32....living in Canada, away from my parents. I grew up in the Caribbean but was so indoctrinated... so yes, 32 years old, I took the plunge.... but considered myself an on the fence JW. In 2019, I woke up. My parents were here on vacation with my nephew (my sister passed away at the age of 28), so my parents adopted her son. It was a 6 week vacation. We did the international convention and a family road trip. 3 weeks into the trip, my nephew goes to the washroom in my house and drops dead. We had just got home from the meeting, he didn't even change out of his clothes. I was never the same. I started therapy because I could not deal with a 13 year old dying right in front of my eyes. I woke up after that. My whole life unraveled. I disassociated a year ago.

Hey y’all! Welcome to The Best Life Ever (REAL VERSION). Thanks for being so honest and open, I loved hearing your experience, especially the love you have for your children. That’s the biggest thing I’ve noticed having left the bOrg years ago: the lack of natural affection among hardcore JW’s. You’re so fortunate to still have your parents in your life. Treasure them!🥰

Getting pregnant and having a baby woke me up. I realised I was in an abusive relationship with the religion. The expectation on women is soo toxic and I witnessed my friends being abusive towards their children to fit in with their expectations. I never any loving support except from my husband who was at the time getting bullied for his involvement in supporting me and wearing a beard. All the blinds started to fall off. We both left as a family and we are soo happy now. We get to experience real love and joy. We are both non religious and don't subscribe to any indoctrination.

For our marriage is nothing better then go out from WT. Me and my husband, we made this decision in 2023. I was fourth JW generation . Golden child, pioneer and good girl. Now I'm finely learning what is world and life about. ❤

My wife and I left 3 weeks ago. Wrote our letters, met with the brothers and told them to destroy our publisher record cards and cease all communication

WELCOME TO YOUR FREEDOM! I'M SO GLAD YOU GUY'S LEFT TOGETHER!

Great video you two. I can totally relate to this. The greatest thing I learned as a JW, is to never become one.

My wife and I are both disfellowshipped and are in a similar journey, would love to talk with y’all. Glad you guys are still together doing well!!!

Yes!!! So happy y’all made this❤️

Your very fortunate I was 60 yrs old my son woke me up. You guys are young

Yall don’t understand how relatable and not alone you are. Ex Jw, ministerial servant and pioneer here that left during the pandemic because I was gay. Lost all my family but with the help of therapy and chosen family I’m now on the road to living the REAL best life ever!! Keep the content coming and thanks for sharing. Genuinely happy for you both! 🙌🏾

We were raised Pentecostal. My oldest brother (16 years older than me) became a JW when he married his wife. He is still a JW. Recently, I told him that if he gets shunned for any reason, just know, you have us and you know we love you. We are close so he thanked me and told me he loved me too. Anyway, thanks for sharing your journey away from the JW's.

Those smiles from ear to ear show the happiness. Me and wife escaped in 2022. THIS is the best life ever!

I lost my job, husband, friends, family and home all in one day. It was worth being shunned. I left back in the day when there was no internet to help me figure it out. Still shunned after 25 years, but happy!

Cheers to you both! I am glad you were able to leave the JW organization. I grew up a JW, my father was an Elder and I was a Ministerial Servant from age 17-19. I left over 20 years ago and know how hard it can be to leave. It can be very lonely when you leave but I am glad that you had each other. My best to you both and your family. Thanks for sharing your story.

Very proud of both of you at least you left when you're still young you have your whole life ahead of you now I left 45 years ago. Take it from me you made the right move.❤

Congrats.... glad your mind is free from cult and control

I started to wake up in 2017....i was pimo til 2020....pandemic was perfect for me to fade out...i am so thankful all 4 of my kids are out as well!

❤Love you both, one of the hardest decions any of us could possibly make. I admire and value your strength in identifying your morals and your personal beliefs and navigating a new path and destiny which you are in control of. Thank you both for sharing your story's with the world. Beautiful family with an immensely beautiful life ahead!

Another couple 💑 leaves the big O. Good for you guys. Nothing seems to make any sense. The Tower is slowly grumbling.

My heart goes out to you guys! Im single and a former ministerial servant and regular pioneer. I finally made the decision to leave the organisation 11 months ago via slow fading; reasons being not believing the bible as Gods inspired word anymore and being in disagreement with many of Watchtowers' harmful policies. Ive essentially lost all but 2 friends in the faith who seem to want to still associate with me but only occasionally. Of course as I move on with my life and meet a nice woman and move in together etc then at some point they will find out and find a way to disfellowship me which will obviously mean obligatory shunning as you know! Just trying to work as much as I can atm to cope while building new friendships and experiences. One day at a time! Love John (false name for obvious reasons haha)

So happy to hear your story. Listening from Canada

Welcome to ex-cult life! I’m 62 and woke up in 2019! The waking up journey is not smooth. It has its up and downs but at the end it’s satisfying and life is better!! I see life differently and my cohumans are all important, I’m more empathetic with humanity! And as for me I want to be a better person everyday! Glad to see younger one getting out so they can enjoy life and built up their dreams now that they have the time! In my case the doubts and red flags were always there since I studied with JW. One of the: 1914: the explanation given by HW didn’t make sense- where in the Bible say some prophesy have double fulfillment? So I did my history search- 😧 2- what do my children have to pay for my bad decisions and more if I don’t know my children. Adam and Eve? Why should I pay for their wrong decision? If I’m a loving God how would I allow their generations after generations die because Eve and Adam? And to top it off, Satan that started all this mess (as per Bible) continues alive centuries after centuries and we don’t live that long! That’s not fair!!! Anyway, Thanks for your video! Be well And in Al of my comments I end it saying: DOWN WITH THE TOWERRR!!!!

Bro! Glad to see yall make a video! Looking forward to hearing more from you.

I am so happy you guys are out and still have each other. As a born in exjw, it literally feels like I grew up in a hostage situation. I personally am teetering between being a Diest or an Atheist. But I cheer for every one of us who escapes. I hope you guys post more videos, and I'm subscribed just in case 🫶🏾.

Wow- congrats for getting out and the compassion and love you showed for others, especially your children and yourself!

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MY CONDOLENCES FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART AND SOUL SIS.

What a breath of fresh air to hear you both express your feelings coming out of this wicked religion, totally can sympathize with you both as I experience these doubts and was a victim of these twisted teachings. I hope present JW can benefit and learn from your experience and free themselves from this cult. It is so sad that so many people are trapped from coming out due to being worried of losing friends and family within the organization. This religion destroys and ruin so many families on the doctrine that is administered by the evil Governing Body that pretend to have any directions from the high almighty... if there is one that exist.

Thoroughly enjoyed your video! I have quite a number of things in common with you- a kid about the same age, nursing school, tragic death in my fam of someone i had shunned, and some other things. I think your video will really help PIMOs/PIMQs. Hope you make more content, it's very good!

I love seeing these videos pop up on my suggested videos. I was disfellowshipped back in 2013 when I was 18 and haven't been happier. So happy you two have found happiness. Freedom is priceless. Much love from your brother in NYC.

So many people leaving..

Much love! Your story resonated a lot with me. I’m former SDA, now atheist. There are many similarities to JW. Thanks for highlighting the importance of education. I think higher education played a role in my deconversion. I already had major doubts but that was the push that helped things along and got me out of the echo chamber I was in. I never understood how predestination could exist alongside free will. If God knew I was going to pass the test, why do I have to study. That caused a lot of suffering later because I had no accountability in my life. Nothing I did truly mattered because God said it was so. I also know the empty feeling of having believed in one thing your whole life and then “nothing”. It’s not “nothing” though. I respect those who find purpose in religion but I believe any ideology that discourages a questioning attitude is a dangerous one. It’s the reason I’m such a huge skeptic now. Although I had doubts all my life, I knew I would never go back when I was about 15/16 and was groped during a church service. No one did anything. And this was after I had given up and been denied so many things “for my protection” but when it came down to it nobody protected me from a known predator. I left the church at 18 and over a decade later, I have zero regrets. There are several things that alarm me about religion. The brainwashing is so pervasive that people do not analyze their own beliefs. When someone lives through a tragedy, it’s because of God. But what about every other innocent person that did not survive a tragedy? Then it’s still “Gods will” and he has a purpose even when we don’t see it. Even the state of America doesn’t surprise me. If you believe Jesus walked on water then these right wing conspiracies are much easier to digest. At the end of the day religion is just thought control. As you said, it does make sense to an extent. The idea of heaven makes earthly suffering “ worth it”. Without science people couldn’t explain why the sky was blue or predict disasters, illnesses were mysterious etc. Now I believe it’s about capitalism. If you can sate the ignorant masses that this life doesn’t matter, they aren’t going to question the systems that oppress them nearly as much.

Great job you two. Your core persons might be the same in one way, but with limitless use of your thinking capacity and ability, you are opposite of what you were being JW's. That makes you very different people in a great way. You are a compliment to each other, welcome to the EX-JW community of open minds and freedom. We love you.

I truly relate to so much of your experiences. Thank you so much for your transparency. I am so sorry for your brother passing. I am 52 and woke up in 2011/2012, after being raised a JW from age 4. By the time the pandemic started I was going to KZfaq regularly and had found the parts of the ExJW community that helped me heal and worked for me. I also never looked at anything "apostate" until several years after leaving. I hope you continue to share because there is so much power in storytelling. Hold on tight and continue to fight for your family's happiness. I am so glad y'all woke up. I truly understand. Wishing you all the best.

Your video was recommended on Reddit, so nice to hear your stories. I appreciate the you delivered your points of view. So gracious, humble and honest.

Appreciate your transparency ❤ I left and can live in my authentic truths

Thank you for your story. So many similarities to my families awakening! My husband was an elder 15 yrs and servant 10yrs before that. We had two children in their mid 20’s when we all came out. Both kids and I pioneered years and did ASL as a family. We came out the end of 2018. What a journey! Enjoy the experience of raising your little ones in freedom🥰. Your fellow apostates 😜

Good on you guys for breaking with that cult! I was raised in the JW's and I left when I was 16, one of the best decisions of my life. I still strongly believe in God altho not in the one that Jehovah's witnesses believe in because their version of God is very distorted. I hope you guys also still have faith in God and in his son Jesus/Yeshua because it always saddens me when people break from the JW's they abandon their believe in God altogether. There are a lot of interesting archaeology documentaries on KZfaq about the biblical times in the old days, for example the city of Sodom and Gomora, if you find it interesting, I definitely recommended. Also if you want to know the dark history of the beginning of the JW's, research Charles Taz Russel who founded the Watchtower, he had strong ties with the Freemasons, he was a 33 degree mason, he is mentioned on the JW's website too, there is so much evidence on the JW's having strong ties to the freemason cult. Really you guys did good breaking with the Jw's. God Bless.

I love your video. The moment you rattled off "australopithecus," I knew I'd like you, haha! It's great that there are so many exjws telling their stories -- everyone will find a story to relate to. For me, yours is particularly resonant, and I'm glad to have found your new channel. You have wonderful chemistry as a couple and infectious laughter. Thanks for posting! I've subscribed and am looking forward to your next ones!

I am 79 and listening to you’ll sounded my life as JW. I left over 42 years. Best decision I made.

You two are a delight! Thank you for sharing your story with us. ❤️ 💕

I commented earlier. One way I was able to show someone an example of the conditioning of the organization is the watchtower study. You read the paragraph and you have the numbered question at the bottom. They give you the answer they are conditioning you to answer in the paragraph. You aren't allowed to have an original thought about it. Just like the book study (not really a Bible study as you are studying a book). That is the conditioning. That is how that BITE works.

I love your video absolutely truthful, I really hope others who are captive see this, thank you.

Good see that your out bro!

You guys!! Thank you for sharing your story. So much that you’ve both said resonated. Thank you

Hello, thank you so much for your video. This helps in the healing process for so many.

I always admire the couple that leave this cult together. I did the best I could in fading by marrying a "worldly" woman! And guess what....you wouldn't believe how many things I can blame my wife for lol. Christmas tree? Yup my wife! Birthdays for me and my kids....my wife. I'm not disfellowship and my parents have an active part in my kids'lives but they know damn well not to question my household goings cause my wife will put them right into their place. THATS why witnesses are taught to only marry in the congregation. With a worldly wife they have zero control over things. Glad you guys made it out together!

Thank you for sharing your story. It is great to hear others talk about what life is like growing up a Jehovah’s Witness. Pioneering was the hardest and honestly the worst time of my life because I dealt with some much. I was only 19 and I went another city 30 minutes away and they just kept telling me to give my life over to this cult and I was burned out. I didn’t even have a real personality outside of being a JW and I was depressed all the time but wearing always wearing a smile. I had so much going on internally and in 2022 I knew I couldn’t do it anymore. It felt like I gave it everything I had and I gained nothing from it. No real friends, strained family relationships, and no real foundation as a person. It’s been 2 years since that was my life and I am the happiest version of myself I’ve ever been. I’m happy we all can finally take a deep breath and stop allowing all those people to judge us based on this made up lifestyle. Take care! Wishing you both the absolute best!

Good for you guys 💚

As a born in JW your family (Taylor) was the one we wouldn’t associate with … I always felt something was wrong with the Wt Organization as being judgmental … I disassociate was not D’fd or reproved just couldn’t be with people who were claiming they were the chosen ones to me in the End God decide he reads our Hearts…Glad you have each other…😊

Yay you two!!! Excellent job! Bring on more videos! I also have childhood trauma. I didn’t raise my children in that cult. However, residually it seeped in to raising them. 😢 Even tho we did all the holidays. But, I had no idea that it happened until I woke up. Bite model! Is your answer! ❤❤❤ much love!

Awesome story, thank you for adding your voice to our community. You guys are a power couple! P.S. I peeped the panda in the background. Already such a cool channel to sub too. Can't wait for future videos. I am so happy you have your freedom now!

Thank you for sharing your story. I enjoyed listening and seeing the love and respect you share with each other, and I love the way you question the things you have been taught. I have also had to do this and found out that there are so many lies that we were taught in education and religion.

Truly cannot express how happy I am for you both!! I left when I was 18 (almost 28 now!) and never looked back since. So many things you talked about are things I also struggled with and I'm so happy to see that I'm not alone. Having family and friends out of the organization is so crucial and I'm so happy y'all found that 😊 Wishing you and your kids all the love and happiness in the world!!

Hi Micah and Taylor. Thanks so much for sharing your story. Love your channel. 😊

Born in the cult, never baptized, a part of me never believed and the other part of me wanted to believe so hard. Following you on IG now, thank you for this video, it was truly refreshing, it takes courage to take each step to the exit from that cult bc you very well know how bad the ones that stay behind will antagonize you.

I really enjoyed your show! 🎉 welcome from Western Washington!!

Thank you both for sharing your story.

Great video! Continue to make them!

Whaaaaaat!! Snellville!! I grew up in Lawrenceville! My wife and I live in Cumming now we’ve been out for about 5 years. If y’all ever need anything let me know. Us exjws need to look out for each other

This is a nice couple. I’m so sorry to hear about her brother. That is very sad. Wow. 🙏🏽 As an authentic Christian, I feel good and bad about this on a couple levels. I feel good bc I do believe JW is a cult and they are heavy on works and almost no grace. No disrespect, but JW’s are not Christians. They have changed their terminology & beliefs every few years. My prayer is that those who have doubts will find the TRUTH of JESUS as the One and only Son of God, not the myriad of things the Witnesses say. God IS all powerful and knowing. If we believe that Jesus died and He suffered, we know that God understands our pain, by giving His Son to redeem us, we see that suffering is part of the human experience. There are things we could never know about why sufferings have purpose for our maturity & growth. I feel bad bc their experience had caused them some doubt about the true God. The ability to believe in Christ requires faith! We all have questions and they are legit. However, we have to be ok with not knowing everything. That’s not a cop out, it’s just a fact. We won’t. I really pray that through the power of the Holy Spirt, they will both come to knowledge of the TRUE and living God, who is Jesus and that is not represented in JW.

thank you so much for sharing your story!

I’m so happy you still have a relationship with your parents. I still have the strongest bond with my mother. My family hasn’t shunned my brothers and I even though they still have their beliefs and we have ours. I’m so grateful to say so because I know not everyone’s situation is the same. Thank you both for sharing your stories! Best of luck to you both.

Thank you for sharing.

I’m new to the EX-JW community myself, and i love to hear the stories of so many ex members . We all have different stories, and it’s so sad, so many of us wasted our time and lives . I hope to interview many ex members. People really need to hear these stories

Great job!

100% of the ex jws I follow have the cleanest houses lol

I started studying in my 20’s while away at college. I got baptized in about a year. I faded when they suggested I drop out of school to go into the full time ministry and left completely after a bad group trip. They wanted too much control over my life.

Appreciate your story so much! Thank you for sharing the deep, personal, and uncomfortable with all us strangers! I really appreciate Taylor's story and shared tears as I share a similarity there. Micah, your description of how you soley used logic, intelligence, and fact based research to come to your conclusion is so encouraging. It took a relative to help me begin questioning, then I was able to break the bubble and start to think for myself with real logic instead of the hard-wired programming. It was gradual as I began to uncover public info of their corruption -their stock holdings of PhillipMorris (tobacco) research led me to discover the assemblies were just large money grabs, and discovering the luxury propery rentals they run, all while poor programmed JWs clean, detail, and run facilities with not even a meal as a thank you. And now more recently they got sanctioned in court not once, but several times for lying in the Montana CSA case. They also got fined for destroying evidence. JWs will never look, because of the fear mongering not to. They are complete hyporcrites and liars under a creepy facade. I seem to find that its mostly the earnest hearted truth seekers that want to live authentically that are usually more inclined to explore whether what they've been doing for so long is really truth. Love for truth can override condition because its that thing that keeps poking until it's answered bc it's what the soul really wants. Actual truth. Not a fantasy just because it's convenient and what everyone friends and family is doing. I hope for all exJWs to post their stories here. We need them! Beautiful job guys.

Your story brought back many memories about what it meant to be young and dating or young and married in the org. I am so happy that you both left and that you can raise your children to be their best, authentic selves. Kudos to you!

Post more!!!!! Love this content

I left JW about a year ago. Was planning my leaving about a year prior to that. It’s been a wild ride for sure. It’s the examples of people who succeeded in escaping along with the support of online friends that has helped so much. Non-JW family also played a big role in escape as well

I subscribed because I appreciate your honesty in telling your story and your awesome personalities! You must be so much fun with your friends. I really like that you were talking with each other and not to the camera. Best of luck with your channel!!❤

Y’all so beautiful with a beautiful story amazing !

Love y’all! We are sorry that we are the ones who outed y’all during Halloween 😂… kinda sorry haha Kat and I really enjoyed the video though hopefully it helps someone really struggling

Great video guys! I subscribed!

Great Job Thanks #FREEDOM

Bless you two!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I really enjoyed listening to your story!! Congratulations!!!

Congratulations you both woke up. A new life of freedom for you both.

Loved this video, to me is the whole " you dont want to have blood in your hands for not preaching" How is it my responsibility? How am i blood guilty? It doesn't makes sense..

Thank you for sharing your story.

I enjoyed the video. I appreciate you all not pushing the “ I still believe in a higher power poison “ that’s just as harmful. Thanks for mentioning the words FACTS And SCIENCE ! Congratulations on escaping,I don’t know personally but I hear that’s a tough one to exit.

Glad to have you out of the Borg, from Salem OR👋🤗 Welcome!

In Atlanta too…Thank you for sharing.. Your courage is definitely encouraging…

I really liked this video you made. Great job expressing your feelings and why you left. I am a bit older (came from the "stay alive till 75" era) so know much about what happened back then and why so many left after that failed date prediction. On a lighter note when Micah said he was into comics made me think of my comic collection of DC/Marvel comics from all way back to early 1970's. Most still in their plastic covers and stored in the comic boxes. Hope you two keep making more videos. Much love and peace to you and your family.

I left about thirty years ago. I am closer to God now, than I ever was then. It was drilled in our heads that life here on earth is not to be enjoyed ; not to be worldly. A Godly relationship is so important. It creates so much peace and happiness in life. Its almost impossible to measure up to all the restrictions of JW'S! Freedom to serve is so wonderful.

Thank you for this video and sharing your story! Your story is SO similar to ours it’s crazy. So happy you broke free for your babies they deserve a life outside of the org.

Thanks for sharing. My thoughts: XJW, Best Life Ever! 😉

i would love to hear more from you guys

Thank you for sharing your story. Your both loved, from one exjw to you all. I hope one day we all meet up at exjw convention🎉

NO NO NO you are not crazy 😝 🤪 I left for the same reasons other people leave tired of the fear, guilt, and shame because I wasn’t attending all the meetings, not going out in service enough, Tired of not being able to have a life and relationship with people who weren’t witnesses. Tired of them sucking the fun out of everything thats not associated with the witnesses. Getting disfellowshipped was the best thing that happened to me I walked out the door and never stepped foot in the congregation again.

I love watching the two of you.

I have several family members and childhood friends who are Jehovah Witnesses. I do remember attending Kingdom Hall a few times as a kid. My daddy would sit down and talk with JW when they would come by the house, but that was about it.

Give them a bday party presents friends etc let the kids real special and loved give them Christmas tree presents everything I missed all that growing up and still hurts at age 61 , I had to see all the neighborhood kids talk about what they got for Christmas etc, we got nothing , that's hurts