18. Shunned but not Shaken: Nanette's Reflections on Her Religious Departure and Divorce
Whiskey and Lace
Erika Altes
2.5 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Nanette's story is a blend of resilience and the power of gratitude. Today, Erika sits with her sister-in-law to talk about Nanette's experience growing up in a religious community and navigating the struggles that arise. They touch on the challenges of leaving a faith, dealing with a partner's addiction, and the resilience it takes to start anew.
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In this episode, we cover the following:
- Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness
- Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Why don't they celebrate holidays
- Getting married at 20
- Having a spouse with alcoholism
- Marriage spiraling: financial infidelity, deaths in the family, and lying
- Her marriage's final straw
- Filing for divorce and experiencing being soft-shunned by her community
- The unconditional love and support she found from family and friends outside of the organization
- Going to therapy, unpacking her indoctrination, and conducting her own research
- Nanette's favorite deli sandwich
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| 0:00.0 | Are you someone who doesn't take life too seriously? Do you sometimes find that a shot of whiskey |
| 0:08.1 | isn't only deserved but needed? If you said yes to either of those, welcome to the Whiskey and Lace |
| 0:13.2 | podcast, where we have honest chats with everyday people, shit shows, and all. I'm your host, Erica |
| 0:18.8 | Althus, and I'm here to empower you to be the best version of |
| 0:22.1 | yourself and perhaps share in a shot of whiskey. Now pour yourself a glass of wine and let's go. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Whiskey and Lace podcast. Today's |
| 0:34.2 | guest is one with a story that I know others will benefit and find inspiration from. |
| 0:38.9 | This guest is one of Mark Six, yes, six sisters, who grew up here locally and was baptized |
| 0:44.7 | at the age of 15 into the Jehovah's Witness organization. She spent 28 years of her life |
| 0:49.6 | baptized in the organization until she ultimately found herself in a position where it was time to |
| 0:53.6 | make some very big life changes. She had been married for 22 years as someone who ended up having a substance |
| 0:58.6 | abuse problem and she ultimately decided leave him simultaneously when leaving the organization. |
| 1:04.0 | And if anyone is familiar with making just one of these big life changes, you know that |
| 1:08.5 | they are massive decisions and incredibly hard chapters to close. |
| 1:12.0 | She then found herself as a newly single mom to her daughter who at the time was nine years old |
| 1:16.3 | on top of losing so many people close to her. And let me just tell you guys, Mark and I witnessed what |
| 1:21.6 | she went through and I just want to say, this woman sitting in front of me picked herself up by |
| 1:26.2 | the bootstraps and did a remarkable job |
| 1:28.2 | and navigating being shunned by close family and friends, all while being a newly single parent, |
| 1:34.3 | managing to continue to work full time to provide for her and her daughter off of her solo income. |
| 1:39.6 | But she also managed to go back to school and get her bachelor's degree during all of this. |
| 1:45.0 | I think it goes without saying that my sister-in-law is a total badass, and I'm so damn proud of |
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