An Amkid Talks About Life With Amway Ambot Parents

Amway fucks up another family. An Amkid remembers life in the Amway cult from 3 decades ago. Thanks for the insight into how kids understand how Amway destroys lives:

 

Recently some very close friends got “into the business”, and it has forced me to revisit how I feel about Amway and its impact on my childhood.

A profound sadness has hung over me since our friends told us they were considering a particular organization (which was not Amway, of course, eye roll, it is WWDB). I knew right then we were going to lose them as friends. This man has been my husband’s closest friend since high school. They have been through a ton together, and losing them is really devastating for us.

I carefully reminded them that I was an Amway kid (an Amkid?) and asked them if they wanted my perspective on growing up in Amway. I told them once and promised to support them thereafter. I knew if they didn’t hear that we are willing to support them, I would be cutting off our relationship right then and there. Nice baggage, huh.

My parents are ‘lifers’. They’ve been in since I was 8. That was 38 years ago. They had two deep teams that generated some income until they fell apart, probably 25-30 years ago.

My childhood was weirder than I realized.

-Annoyed neighbors. Weekly Tuesday night ‘product pickup’ which filled the street with the team coming to pick up their products. Weekly ‘team calling’ every Sunday night when all my Dad’s buddies would come over to call random people they had met at the grocery store, and shout ‘Loser’ or ‘Sap’ (what the heck is that anyway?) every time they got turned down. Those guys were loud down in the basement while my siblings and I were upstairs doing homework and preparing for the school week.

- Tools. Dumb, dumb tapes and books. I had NO IDEA that they were so expensive until I started reading about AmCult recently. Seriously, I thought upline was giving that stuff to my Dad. I hope my kids don’t think NPR is as annoying as I thought those tapes were.

- Negative wives. We heard all about these negative women, and how my mom struggled because she knew she was viewed as one. She is very introverted and not peppy enough. Yet she slaved over the weekly product order, product pick up, and angelically dealt with my Dad never being home. I tell you, I would be the negativest of negative wives ever.

- Functions. Gee, I wonder why we never took any family vacations? Because my parents had to go to 4 functions every year. They took us 1 time that I can remember, because some upline approved kids coming to a beach trip. A commenter above described it perfectly...we sat in the hotel room with a 13 year old babysitter watching R rated movies. The other times, my parents left us with babysitters that we didn’t really know or feel comfortable with. I am thankful that I never suffered any abuse other than neglect in any of these situations, and I hope my siblings were also safe.

- Lost friends. I bet my parents could have let us stay at friends’ houses for all those functions instead of getting weird babysitters, but they had alienated all their/our friends soon after getting into Amway. New friends were always business colleagues, and of course they came and went.

- Oh my word, stop. talking. to. everyone. My Dad would talk to everyone, everywhere. He is an extravert so he would probably have done that anyway, but I HATED knowing his friendliness was ultimately not genuine, at least I did not believe it could be. I would shuffle off and try to hide. It was always the same conversation with the same lead ins.

- Faith. After they started Amway, my parents drew away from church involvement and let Amway replace church for them. That’s something I have not seen much mention of in blogs, and it may be specific to LTD, Britt, or just the South. But in Amway, it was trendy to be a Christian, and all the functions had church services where droves of people would accept Christ like they had just been listening to Billy Graham. This made my Dad very excited, and I get why, but the lines were blurred between business and religion and it was about control, not about following the most humble man who ever walked the earth. As children, we lost connection with families from church that I, particularly, had grown up with. My parents had no more time for Bible studies or service projects, so we didn’t get to go either.

- Health. My Dad’s health suffered big time. He was a tall thin man who enjoyed working around the house before Amway. Then, then he became a man who constantly attended midnight meetings at IHOP, probably slept about 5 hours a night on average, and got fat. He has never lost all that weight, but he knows he can count on Nutri-lite vitamins to keep him going. That might have worked in his 40’s but he is in his late 60’s now and I am very worried about him.

-Time. I suppose my Dad would have spent more time with us if he had been home in the evenings. Ultimately, I don’t think he was a bad as some people probably were, as I have never questioned his love and commitment. I’m not sure what I missed, but I was a very compliant child overall, and as a teenager I tasted a little freedom and normalcy and began to rebel and put as much emotional distance as I could between myself and my parents. It would not be until I had children that I truly wanted to be around them again.

These days, my parents are still trying to build their business, while they also work their annoying J.O.B.s (as an engineer and teacher). The only irritation for me is planning visits around functions. That really, really annoys me. I can’t see why they can’t see that their business has failed.

Our friends who have been sucked into Amway have presented the ‘plan’ to all of our mutual friends. One couple went through most of the process and went to several meetings (in another city, mind you, because we do not have an open meeting here). An upline told my pregnant friend, “This is the perfect time for you to start building your business, when you kids are babies. They won’t even remember you being gone!” I wanted to vomit when I heard that. Thankfully this couple decided to run the other way.

WWDB World Wide Dream Builders Amway Family Reunion 2026

Brainwashed Amway cult followers are frantically looking for information on Family Reunion so let’s get this post up to the top of Google searches to reel ‘em in!

Calling the Amway WWDB function “family reunion” is very cultish. Its how the Amway cult leaders brainwash the followers into believing that their Amway family is their real family now. Many people join cults because they don’t have a good family and they’re desperate to join a family that will welcome them with open arms. Cults prey on these people. They prey on those who have good relationships with their family too. They’re an equal opportunity cult! The Amway cult works hard at separating their followers from family members who are negative to “the business”. Separate and divide. We’re your new family now. And we’re throwing a big family reunion. You must attend. You will be love bombed all weekend. You won’t believe the love you’ll get from your new Amway family. This is how you show your loyalty to your cult leaders. Family reunion is for serious business builders. If you don’t come to Family Reunion we’ll know you’re not a serious business builder and we won’t work with you.

And the bullshit goes on. All good little brainwashed IBO’s must attend Family Reunion.

If anyone knows the new login and password for the WWDB website let us know so we can get the dates, location, and theme out there and make fun of it. Those Amway motherfuckers changed their guest log in. Cults are very secretive that way. Can’t let the infidels find out where they’ll be.

Thanks to one of our readers a few years ago we found out that an Amway Family Reunion booked the Spokane Arena in Washington one August. Not July.

I checked the convention center because Amway has held cult meetings there in the past. I found “Duncan Event” in July with nothing else in the description. But I mean it is pretty fucking embarrassing to admit you have anything to do with Amway. I’m getting tired of trying to track down where these top secret Amway cult meetings are being held but one thing we know is they’re being held in smaller places. That may not have an online calendar for all to see. The Amway cult leaders have had to downsize from arenas and school auditoriums to smaller spaces because of the declining attendance at ScAmway functions.

There is no way of knowing the top secret agenda for what will happen at this year’s Amway Family Reunion but here’s what was on topic a few years ago at WWDB Amway Family Reunion and its probably still the main theme:

BELIEVE

Yes in big capital letters. World Wide Dream Builders are SCREAMING at us! So what the fuck we’re supposed to believe?

Apparently if you believe your business will flourish and grow - it will.

Well holy shit! That was the secret all along. All you have to do is BELIEVE. None of this stalking recruits or selling overpriced Amway shit. All you gotta do is BELIEVE!

Nothing else!

OK we don’t want to get accused of infringing copyright laws by copying and pasting so I’ll paraphrase the bullshit from the WWDB web page. If you attend Amway Family Reunion you will be inspired to BELIEVE you can build an Amway business. You will be motivated to use your talents to help others BELIEVE.

Sounds like a bunch of brainwashed cult bullshit to me. But this Family Reunion claims to offer something that has never been heard of before at any prior Family Reunion. Apparently there will be sales, product, and technology training.

Ha! Unlikely! Family Reunion consists of an endless march of Ken and Barbie Ambots strutting across the stage in evening gowns and tuxedos bragging about their wealth.

What does it cost to attend WWDB Amway Family Reunion. Last we heard tickets were $560/couple so say around the same price this year. I recorded $850 for other costs for this bullshit event - hotel, food, travel. So ballpark it around $1500 for a couple. The sky is the limit depending on air travel and hotel and food costs.

Shit - got an email on a Mexican cruise for $599 and that’s a week worth of hotel, food, and accommodation. And much more fun holiday for 2 people all for less than the price of wasting time, money, and brain cells at Amway Family Reunion.

But the ambots will come in droves, whipped on by their cult leaders.

WWDB Amway Family Reunion sucks!

Fuck Amway!

Fuck WWDB World Wide Dream Builders.

Fuck those World Wide Destructive Bastards!

 

Turn Off Your Fucking Cell Phones!

At every Amway board plan meeting I attended, the person who lived there stood up to introduce the pompous sack of shit Platinum. Seeing as how it was pretty much always the same group of about 10 or 12 people and we all knew who he was - why bother? He could have just stepped into the room and started talking. But instead he wants to be introduced like he’s some big rock star.

Meetings started at 8pm (if they started on time that is) and before the Platinum started  the brainwashing session the person introducing him would ask everyone to turn off their cell phones. Pretty much everyone dutifully complied.

Yeah you guessed it. I was the rogue stand out. Most people I know don’t phone that late at night - and here I’m talking after 9 - unless there is an emergency. If there is an emergency I want to be reachable. To hell with the sack of shit Platinum.

Sadly, my phone never rang once at any Amway meetings I attended. Likely due to most people who phone me its usually earlier in the day and most people call me on the house phone not my cell. I rarely give out my cell number.

One night we’re sitting in a living room and there's a fair amount of people there, maybe 30 or 40. Ambot wasn’t sitting with me. He was standing in the back of the room. This particular home had comfy living room furniture. I was in an easy chair or couch, don’t really recall, and I was sinking into it enjoying how soft it was. The Platinum was boring me with the same old same old and I’d closed my eyes and was hoping to fall asleep but unfortunately I didn’t.

Later on Ambot told me that the “sharp businessmen” he was standing with in the back of the living room had noticed and asked him if I was falling asleep to which he agreed it sure looked like it. They were really pissed off that I was being bored to sleep by their amazing Platinum. Ambot tipped them off that my cell phone likely hadn’t been turned off and they thought it might be fun to phone me and that I’d be embarrassed by the phone ringing in the middle of the sack of shit's brainwashing session. I think Ambot convinced them that I wouldn’t be embarrassed if my phone rang. In fact I might not hear it. I mean I’d hear it but I wouldn’t associate it with it with my phone ringing. I would just think someone else had the same ring tone as I have.

What really bugged the shit out of me was that Ambot gave my cell phone number WITHOUT MY PERMISSION to the fucking asshole sponsor and a couple of other fucking assholes in our Amway upline I don’t recall who. I don’t want any of these bastards knowing my phone number or phoning me. I can only hope they’ve all deleted me out of their contacts. None of them were ever in my contact list.

I just dare that fucking arrogant prick that sponsored us to ever phone me. I'll give him shit supreme like he's never heard before!

When it comes to Amway losers - Don’t phone me and I won’t phone you.

 

Searchers Who End Up At Married To An Ambot

We get a lot of interesting and not so interesting Google searches that end up at Married to an Ambot blog. Some searchers are looking for something completely unrelated to Amway and they usually leave as soon as they’ve realized their mistake. A few horrified IBO’s end up here too. Most leave but a few stick around long enough to leave a canned Amway speak comment about how we didn’t try hard enough.

We get some searches where you have to ask yourself: why the fuck is someone searching for that? Talk about brainwashed!

And we get people who are so  pissed off at Amway, end up at this blog, and literally spend hours and days reading every single post.

What I love is this blog is high on the search engines for IBO’s who are seeking information about Family Reunion, Free Enterprise Days FED, Spring Leadership and Dream Night. Nothing like screwing up Amway and WWDB! Of course right now its Spring Leadership 2026 that’s coming up and anxious IBO’s are seeking information. Instead everything high on the search are blogs similar to this that tell what really happens at these Amway functions. We’re higher than the web pages of Amway and WWDB propaganda. What does that tell you? Us bloggers are gaining the edge getting the truth out there and getting more page views than the corporation! Yay us!

We get a huge amount of searches looking for “ArtistryCosmetics” Usually right up there on the first page behind the Amway propaganda on Google. Doesn’t seem to bother Amway too much that we’re diverting their traffic otherwise they’d have offered to buy out the blog.

A searcher typed in “Fuck Brad Wolgamott”. Hmm. I’m pretty sure I’ve never written that phrase! They ended up at the IBO’sare Free Labor post. Someone may have typed Brad’s name in the comments and of course the posts are full of fuck this and fuck that so its logical to get a hit with that search criteria. I’m pretty sure I might have heard Brad Wolgamott speak at an Amway function though nothing about him stands out. Unmemorable experience for me and I have nothing to say about him. But I’m willing to help out that searcher and send out a big fuck you his way.

We get a lot of search hits for “Amway horror stories” or “Amway cult” or “cult horror stories”.

There’s a lot of people out there who don’t realize that Amway is a cult. I wouldn’t have thought so either until Ambot’s involvement and the brainwashing by his "Christian" Platinum cult leader.

We get searchers for creepy employees ending up at the Amwayis Creepy post. Oddly enough we’re right below the hit for David Letterman is creepy for having sex with female employees! (Or at least we were the first time this blog post ran!)

There are a lot of searches for “quit Amway” or similar searches like how to get friend or husband to quit Amway. What about “big losses in Amway”? There are lots of searchers finding their way to this blog with that one too. “Annoying Amway IBO’s” in the search criteria find their way to the Married To An Ambot blog too!

Does Amway head office care that people are actually typing this stuff into search engines and coming to the Married To An Ambot blog? Do they not care that people think Amway IBO’s are annoying? Nope, not a chance. Amway head office = apathy central. The I-Don’t-Give-A-Shit crew.

Sometimes we get people looking for an Amway IBO. Poor bastards must want to buy some overpriced Amway shit! Boy did they come to the wrong place!

What’s even more bizarre is the search hits for IBO’s looking for basic business information that their upline should but does not provide them with like “help with selling Amway products” or “how to hold an Amway Grand Opening”. Yup they get directed to the post about ourGrand Opening and figure out real fast that no matter how much planning goes into it and how many people are invited, it’ll be a bust. I’m glad I’m getting that information out there. Don’t waste your time or money on an Amway Grand Opening!

We get a few searchers each week looking for “how to say fuck in igbo”? They all end up at the Fuck YouIBO post.

Am I the only person wondering what is igbo?

Google search! Ta da! Its a native tribe language in Nigeria.

Married To An Ambot is a top hit for someone looking for the Igbo translation for fuck. We’re even higher on the search engine that the person who has this post: “Help! Why are my Igbo men rubbish in bed?”

Sorry I can’t help her with that one! Ha ha but I love it!

What’s really sad are the ambots who search for “World Wide Dream Builders is awesome”. Talk about brainwashed! I mean who is so infatuated with the scam that they type that into a search engine? The same type of brainwashed ambot who types in “Amway is awesome” and come to this blog thanks to the Youtube video called MyAwesome Delicious Amway scam.

These must be new recruits in the early stages of the brainwashing process. Give them a year and they’ll be back doing searches like “Amway is a cult”, "Amway scam", “Amway sucks” and “lost money in Amway”.

 

Amway Maintains Itself Through Brainwashing

The last time we ran the post about Amway being a disgusting cult, one of our readers had this to say – one of the best responses ever on what it’s like to sign up to the Amway cult:

 

This sort of thing happens whenever you join any kind of social group where you are compelled to give up your personal freedom to choose or to decide matters. All groups by their nature are conformist and tyrannical.

Cults are the very worst example of this kind of social group. They force you to obey certain leaders, they limit your range of choices, they dictate how you may use your time, and they extort monetary payments and other kinds of support from you.

But most horrible of all, they COMPEL YOU TO THINK AND REACT IN CERTAIN APPROVED WAYS. You are simply not allowed to have opinions or ideas that run contrary to what the group and its leaders have. And your speech and behavior are constantly scrutinized by everyone else in the cult to make sure that you are not deviating from the cult's approved patterns.

Amway is one of the oldest (and sickest) business cults. The entire aim of up-line in Amway is to rule over down-line IBOs in every aspect of their existence. Speech, thought, behavior, dress, deportment, purchases, friendships, education, and even where you live and what kind of car you drive -- all these things are rigidly controlled by your up-line, and if you attempt to deviate from prescribed patterns you will be abused and publicly vilified.

Fortunately, most members of Amway drop out quickly when they realize what they have signed on for. Up-line rages violently when they do this, but they then work feverishly to replace the IBOs who have resigned with new idiots.

And this is the real truth about Amway: it has nothing to do with the stupid products. It has everything to do with being a cult that maintains itself through intense brainwashing. That's why the Amway speechmakers always talk about "leadership" and "helping others," while neglecting to tell anyone how to sell Amway products to retail customers.

 

 

Amway Is A Disgusting Cult

This is my story. This is your story. This is everyone's story that ever got involved in ScAmway and witnessed the brainwashing and manipulation. Nothing every changes. This could have happened yesterday, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or even longer than that. Thanks to one of our readers for sharing their story on why Amway is a disgusting cult:

 

Amazing blog you have here! Lol it cracks me up.

I have my own little Amway story for you from when I was in the cult: I was in Amway last year dragged in by a co-worker with the idea of making millions and retiring within 2-5.

I soon realized Amway truly is a cult.

My upline would encourage us to cut out our own family and friends if they talked against Amway. They called themselves our family and the only family we need. The constantly badgered me to drag my girlfriend into the cult and it eventually got to a point where they were telling me she’s a non believer and that I should consider dating someone within the Amway cult.

Everyone would worship our upline leader and if anybody decided to say anything controversial about him to anyone inside the cult, the word would get to the leader and he would have a personal one on one talk with you. I remember one time I was talking privately to this guy at one of my first Amway events (I was just asking him basic questions, trying to figure out what this is about) and my upline approached me after and asked me what we were talking about. And they continued by telling me to be careful what I say to other people and if they find out I am talking bad about Amway or anyone within Amway there will be consequences (I don’t know why this didn’t make me run as far away as I could after this incident, I think the idea of riches and retirement was more important to me).

Also our cult leader would hug people at the meetings and tell them “I love you”. He would call all the men within the cult “brother”. He was manipulative and he used weak people to gain their love and trust. After meetings this bastard would bring everyone outside and show off his brand new car he “paid with cash”. He would literally make people sit inside of it just to experience what “they will have one day if they stick to the plan”.

He would exploit certain peoples childhoods and weakness to bring them crawling to his feet. I swear he would tell people this story about how one time he sat through and entire Amway event with a burst appendix because it was more important to him that he received this information than to go to the hospital. What a joke!

I feel like such an idiot for falling for this disgusting cult. Sometimes I can’t even believe I fell for it. They are using a very effective form of brainwashing amongst these people. Its scary to even recall this type of stuff. It is a true cult and there is absolutely no arguing that. I fully 100% believe with all my heart that this is the wrong path to go down. Amway is not a legitimate business opportunity, it is a shitty recruiting job that ends up with you loosing family, friends, and having people laugh in your face when you try and “drop the message” to them. Very scary stuff. I hope all these brainwashed ambots will realize one day they are wasting their time and money.

 

8PM Amway Warriors

At some of the major functions I attended I often heard the speakers from stage refer to the husband as a warrior. The man would call himself a warrior fighting for his family’s financial future. And the wife, good little Barbie Ambot, would look adoringly at her husband and sigh “My warrior.”

Too sickening even for a paperback romance novel!

Amway warriors. Off to fight a war. Of course the big battle is signing up new IBO’s and convincing other people to buy overpriced Amway products.

Ambot would be so fired up after getting home from the function that he’d often send me text messages signed “love, your warrior”.

I’m a pacifist. This blog isn’t the venue to get into a political discussion on any wars or civil unrest going on in the world but suffice it to say that pacifists oppose fighting and war and therefore the term warrior is not such a popular choice to sway any pacifists.

I couldn’t possibly be the only pacifist in a stadium with 10,000 people or however many the stadium holds.

Warriors! Sounds like a game kids play.

Maybe somebody else has better insight on why Amway Diamonds call themselves warriors. Off to war. Fighting a battle against those who oppose the Amway scam.

I came across a post written by a blogger who calls himself the 8pm Warrior where he discusses if MLM is a good opportunity for 8pm warriors. http://8pmwarrior.com/2011/01/is-multi-level-marketing-mlm-a-good-opportunity-for-8pm-warriors/

Edited to add – that’s a dead link but it was good the first time this post appeared! The website has done an overhaul and now it’s more about thoughts from an 8pm warrior. 8pmwarrior.com

First off I want to say I love the name “8pm Warrior”. That is so true of Amway Ambots marching off to their 8pm cult meetings. This blogger is not an Amway IBO but when I first heard of him I thought he might be which is why I took a peek.

This particular post got a few comments including several from a “James” who admits to 10+ year involvement in Quixtar/Amway. He writes rather lengthy responses explaining his point of view as an IBO. A lot of typical Amway speak. To give the guy credit his responses are well written and thought out but for all I know he’s copied and pasted from similar posts that he plasters all over the Internet. Years ago Joecool had a blog visitor named James leaving similar comments and responses to his posts. I can’t help thinking it might be the same guy because he invites others to contact him to further discuss the Amway opportunity. So did the poster named James who commented on Joecool’s blogs. Doesn’t really matter one way or the other except that Joecool’s “James” has not been heard of in a long time and I wondered if this was him resurfacing.

Amway warriors? Go to bed little boys.