changedagain - I too did not get my personal finances in order until after leaving TLWF and in my 40's. Since I was involved in leadership, I had to submit a regular report of my personal finances - something the rank and file did not have to do. Lets just say my credit score went up 250 points a couple of years after leaving. It's funny how you can live under so much control and still have no sense of boundaries in common sense areas of life. Looking back, I was more like a teenager than a 40 year old - something my psychologist was quick to point out - and not only with just finances. I was not exaggerating when I said I grew up more in the first 2 years after leaving TLWF than the previous 20 years in TLWF. It certainly was not healthy for me. Now in my 60's, I have to chuckle when I think of some of the shepherds I lived under. It was like something out of a twisted comedy movie that people pretended to be real. It's embarrassing to me now how clueless I was.
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