My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!
Monday, December 31, 2012
Have a Happy and Amwayless New Year!
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Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!
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3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
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Hi Anna Bannana, Happy New Year, I enjoyed reading your blog. I wanted to share some of my experience that I had in Quixtar/Amway.
ReplyDeleteI joined that cult around 2004 until 2007. I went to seminars, bought cd's and books, etc. By 2007 I was suffering from a severe depression related to the "business" (I didn't know that then), so I started to go to a Christian church, I was tired of seeing therapist, etc, and without knowing I saw God as my last resort. After I started going regularly to church, I felt that God was convincing me to leave Quixtar. I remember praying that I wanted to be Diamond to help my family in Argentina, but God gave me the conviction that He'll provide my needs. Well, as soon as I quit Quixtar, (and I kid you not), my depression disspeared. Today I looked back and I can only thank God for showing me the light at the end of the tunnel. My eyes are filled with tears when I remember that God was merciful. But I have a "friend" in the business who is brainwash, she joined Amway around '99/2000 and she is still there with her husband, they are not anywhere near 25 per cent (I think that's what they call it) Platinum, etc. Last time I spoke to her she kept talking about the system (cd's, books,etc) and couldn't let me talk. The only thing I do is to pray that God will open their eyes to the deception they are in.
Sorry it was too long, I pray for 2013 for people to get out of cult.
God bless!
Hi Laura. Happy new year to you too! Thank you for dropping by with your story. Glad you got out of the Amway cult. Sounds like you had quite an emotional upheaval which is not uncommon for cult members. You know that ambots have a screwed up religion that they are always preaching that god wants them to do the business so they can bless others. Twisting biblical terms and all. That's what happens in cults. Sad to hear about your friend. After all these years it will be near impossible to get out of the cult unless they go through foreclosure, bankruptcy or divorce or some other life altering thing happens to make them wake up and come to their senses. They hang in there because they've wasted so much time and money and all they got is hope. If they ever get to platinum or whatever level in a month there's is no guarantee they'll stay there. Our former platinum was in and out of platinum qualification for many years and he got fired last year by Amway. So there's never any guarantee that Amway can't fire you at any time either. That's the difference between being a commissioned salesperson and being a real business owner whether or not you can get fired for doing someone wrong.
DeleteThanks for your reply! Yes, I after I got out I could clearly see that they use God and the Bible to manipulate people. So sad.
DeleteHi Anna, I found your blog today, and appreciate all that you're writing. Yes, I know this world too...*sigh*...I'll leave it there for NOW. Keep up the good work (and BTW, you write really well & don't really need to write in "French" if you know what I mean).
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous. Glad you've found us! You say this is a world you're familiar with and somehow I get the feeling you're still stuck in. If your story is like the rest of ours that's thanks to your significant other being brainwashed by the Amway cult leaders. Hope you get back to the real world real soon. And I don't know French.
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