larry bobo Wrote:
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> 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.
Yes, I can completely relate.
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> 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.
Yes, I can completely relate.