Its kind of troubling the
pattern of search hits we’ve been seeing around here:
“Should I kick my Amway ambot out of the house?”
“What happens when husbands and wives don’t agree on Amway?”
“How do you get someone to leave Amway?”
“Boyfriend wants me to travel to Amway meetings with him”
“Amway destroyed my marriage”
“How to deprogram an Amway ambot”
“How to be deprogrammed from Amway”
“How to quit Amway”
These ones are especially sad because the searcher - and here I’ll go out on a
limb and say probably a woman - has reached the end of their rope in putting up
with the Amway bullshit and being abused by the upline and is searching on the
Internet for how to deal with their relationship crumbling due to the
interfering upline. Its a horrible position to be in to watch your husband
throwing all your money at the great Amway cult, helpless to stop it because
some upline cult leader has bullied him into buying more shitty Amway products
that they can’t afford. How did some fucking Amway asshole get his clutches in
to your husband to have this kind of control over him.
Cult!!!!
The “how to quit Amway” variation we get several of each day but a real spike
between major functions.
Normally Ambots are dragged off to a major function with all the rah rah and
motivational speeches from the Ken and Barbies stomping across the stage. The
ambot comes home from these motivational rallies and is all fired up and
figuring out how they’re going to make their business explode. Sadly the only
thing exploding is their dwindling bank account and skyrocketing credit card
debt. After a few days or weeks of failing to convince any recruits to come to
Amway meetings or finding new customers to buy Amway products the enthusiasm
dwindles and the ambot starts to lose interest. They’re not making money and
after all the whole point of owning your own business is to make money. Their
cult leaders might notice the ambot not coming to meetings or slacking off on
their Amway purchases and convince them not to quit now, not when success is
right around the corner. Some ambots hang on for a few more weeks and get to
the next major function, get all motivated again, and the sick cycle repeats
itself.
Meanwhile the wife - and yes for this topic I’m going to call the above
searches as done by the woman because I can give that point of view - is
feeling hopeful that the end is in sight because the husband is losing
interest.
Seeing as how I’d already been down the Amway path to hell I noticed things
about Ambot that showed he was finally realizing he’d been lied to about
getting rich in Amway. He stopped subscribing to Communikate and the World Wide
Dream Builders premier membership. He stopped buying CDs and books. He stopped
attending meetings.
Now granted getting to this stage took him a few months longer than the first
foray into Amway hell. I was about at the end of my rope and I could have
written any of those above Google searches about marriage being destroyed by
Amway, how to deprogram an ambot from the Amway cult, and ready to kick the
ambot out of the house.
What I didn’t know at the time was that my Ambot had had enough of being
bullied by the sack of shit Platinum and being ordered to leave me and
listening to these sickos that were praying I’d find another man and leave him.
So there were other conflicts going on as Ambot realized the sheer evil of the
Amway upline and how they were hell bent on destroying our relationship all in
the name of trying to get their hands on our money.
So Ambot was letting go of those bastards. Setback came when someone upline
phoned and told him he had to buy 100 or so PV of Amway products so some
fucking asshole further upline could reach their goals for the month. Damn it
anyway he put another $500 on his credit card buying useless shitty Amway
products that we’ll never use. Then the same fucker phones back and badgers him
about attending the next major function.
“Too bad,” Ambot tells the upline bastard. “I spent all my money buying those
Amway products so those assholes could meet their goals this month. No money
left for Amway functions.”
And that was the last time Ambot ever bought anything from Amway. Yay!
Though it wasn’t the last time the upline bastards phoned or texted him but it
came less often. Seeing as how he missed a major function he was on the shit
list and the punishment is to be ostracized by the sack of shit Platinum until
he returns to the fold begging for forgiveness.
Didn’t happen.
So I will send out another big fuck you to our Platinum. You lost your
grip asshole! And it was about time! FUCK YOU!
Anna, I agree with you. It is mostly men who are sucked into the Amway racket, and it is their wives who suffer the bad consequences.
ReplyDeleteMen are easily caught by appeals to "success" and "achievement" and "fulfilling one's dream." That is why Amway is largely a male-oriented business. The women who go along with it are usually very submissive wives who follow their husbands' directions.
There are some exceptions. There are some women who are sucked into the Amway trap, and their husbands are the ones who suffer. But the percentages are heavily skewed the other way.
And yes, some MLMs are directed at women primarily, such as the LuLaRoe scam or the ones that deal in essential oils or cosmetics. Women are also vulnerable to MLM lies and propaganda.
The terrible thing about a woman whose husband has been brainwashed by Amway is that she is being torn apart. She loves her husband and wants to support him, but she also is smart enough to see that Amway is a goddamned scam that is bleeding them dry of funds, and wrecking their lives. So what can she do?
Most of the time she has to hope that he will see the light, and just tell his up-line to fuck off.
Anonymous - yeah Amway just tears our lives apart. Whether the Ambot is a man or a woman their partner is completely helpless against the brainwashing techniques used by Amway cult leaders. As you said they focus on achieving dreams and success. And leaving behind negative unchristian dreamstealers. LOL! Amway is a scam. The fucking assholes in the Amway cult are a bunch of broke losers. And somehow the wives are helpless to do anything about it.
DeleteExcept sometimes we start a blog to curse out the fucking Amway assholes in the upline and make sure the world knows about their brainwashing techniques and that Amway will only bring financial and emotional distress that might not be something to recover from.