Due to
recent comments about how the Amway cult continues to destroy lives its time to
bring back this post.
I started writing Married To An Ambot as kind of a healing process for me to curse out my former upline and get the word out about what happens at Amway meetings and the upline abuse along with the help of a few bananas who are also pissed off that Amway fucked with our lives. Our hope is to reach out to other women who are in similar situations or were at one time. Our stories might have some differences but they are the same. I was involved with upline who to this day are truly horrible, evil motherfucking troublemakers. If we can help other women get their husbands/boyfriends out of Amway and away from their destructive upline, then writing this blog is all worth it.
Usually it is our husbands who are approached by a friend who tells them about an amazing business opportunity. A home based business where they work 10 to 15 hours a week and can earn an extra $800 a month or more (!) by selling Amway products and signing up other IBO’s who will also purchase Amway products and sign up others to do the same, and so on and so on. At first the wife might be sceptical. You know the old phrase about how if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. The numbers look good on paper but in actuality it doesn’t seem believable that this can this be pulled off. The old saying about if it was really this easy then everyone would be doing it and making money comes to mind.
When our husbands get excited about something we want to be supportive. It doesn’t take long before we stop being supportive and end up getting more and more pissed off. Husband is sneaking around like he has a mistress on the side. And sure enough he does. A mistress called Amway. He’s out of the house for endless hours attending Amway meetings sneaking back in the house in the early morning hours after we’ve gone to sleep. He’s spending money like crazy on his mistress. Money he doesn’t have so he uses a line of credit, home equity loan, or credit cards. You know when he whips out the plastic he pretends he’s not really paying for it. After all it is a pretend business. That is until the bills roll in and then paying back real money you owe is not so pretend any more.
After awhile the wife has had enough. She never sees her husband and their bank account is diminishing while their debt is going through the roof. “Choose your mistress or choose me.” Fortunately most men come to their senses and realize for all their hard work, time, and effort they are not getting the money back that was dangled in front of them when they were first looking into this “exciting business opportunity” and they stop going to Amway meetings and throwing away their money.
That’s the short version of every wife’s horror tale about their husband’s Amway mistress.
I was lucky that my Ambot came to his senses. This was because he’d had enough of the upline’s abuse and his realization that the promised money just was not there. He left his Amway mistress. All the people who promised to be his good friends forever and ever abandoned him. That might have been the hardest thing. He actually liked these people and thought they liked him. Wrong. They only liked his money because he was helping make their dreams come true.
I started writing Married To An Ambot as kind of a healing process for me to curse out my former upline and get the word out about what happens at Amway meetings and the upline abuse along with the help of a few bananas who are also pissed off that Amway fucked with our lives. Our hope is to reach out to other women who are in similar situations or were at one time. Our stories might have some differences but they are the same. I was involved with upline who to this day are truly horrible, evil motherfucking troublemakers. If we can help other women get their husbands/boyfriends out of Amway and away from their destructive upline, then writing this blog is all worth it.
Usually it is our husbands who are approached by a friend who tells them about an amazing business opportunity. A home based business where they work 10 to 15 hours a week and can earn an extra $800 a month or more (!) by selling Amway products and signing up other IBO’s who will also purchase Amway products and sign up others to do the same, and so on and so on. At first the wife might be sceptical. You know the old phrase about how if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. The numbers look good on paper but in actuality it doesn’t seem believable that this can this be pulled off. The old saying about if it was really this easy then everyone would be doing it and making money comes to mind.
When our husbands get excited about something we want to be supportive. It doesn’t take long before we stop being supportive and end up getting more and more pissed off. Husband is sneaking around like he has a mistress on the side. And sure enough he does. A mistress called Amway. He’s out of the house for endless hours attending Amway meetings sneaking back in the house in the early morning hours after we’ve gone to sleep. He’s spending money like crazy on his mistress. Money he doesn’t have so he uses a line of credit, home equity loan, or credit cards. You know when he whips out the plastic he pretends he’s not really paying for it. After all it is a pretend business. That is until the bills roll in and then paying back real money you owe is not so pretend any more.
After awhile the wife has had enough. She never sees her husband and their bank account is diminishing while their debt is going through the roof. “Choose your mistress or choose me.” Fortunately most men come to their senses and realize for all their hard work, time, and effort they are not getting the money back that was dangled in front of them when they were first looking into this “exciting business opportunity” and they stop going to Amway meetings and throwing away their money.
That’s the short version of every wife’s horror tale about their husband’s Amway mistress.
I was lucky that my Ambot came to his senses. This was because he’d had enough of the upline’s abuse and his realization that the promised money just was not there. He left his Amway mistress. All the people who promised to be his good friends forever and ever abandoned him. That might have been the hardest thing. He actually liked these people and thought they liked him. Wrong. They only liked his money because he was helping make their dreams come true.
Husbands have flesh-and-blood mistresses for two silly reasons: 1) because they are sexually dissatisfied with their wives, or 2) because they want to think that they can be young again.
ReplyDeleteBut husbands who take on the Amway "mistress" are motivated by something else: FANTASY! And fantasy is an even sillier reason to wreck your marriage. It's much sillier than dreaming about sexual satisfaction or about regaining your lost youth.
The fantasy in Amway is that you can become rich through some patently stupid MLM scheme that will provide you with residual income on a permanent basis. The second fantasy is that the persons you associate with in Amway will be genuine and dependable friends to you for life.
Neither thing will happen. You will lose money, and your Amway "friends" will disappear when you quit.
Anonymous - just about everything in the Amway world of make belief is based on fantasy.
DeleteLike you said the fantasy that everyone can get rich in the stupid Amway pyramid scheme. And the dumb fuck Ambots that believe that fantasy.
Amway is no different than any other pyramid scheme out there. The creators of the pyramid scheme and those who got in early enough to be at the top of the pyramid are the only ones who make money.
Amway the Cult of Greed. Where you lose your money, your family, your friends, and your brain cells.
There is an old saying that "people love to buy but hate to be sold". Which goes a long way toward explaining why even though Amway has been around since the 1950s hardly anyone outside of the Amway cult itself actually uses their products. After all, why would anybody want to place an order, pay shipping and then wait to get overpriced and mediocre (at best) products that carry a brand name they would be embarrassed to have in their house AND have to deal with some desperate anxious Amway cult member trying to please his/her upline while also trying justify their own place within the cult by making sales and hoping to recruit new suckers into the cult?
ReplyDeleteRay - that's right. These days people can buy just about anything they want online. Get the price and quality they want. If they order from Amazon and other places they get free shipping for placing a minimum dollar order. In Amway you have to spend $750 to get free shipping. LOL! What a deal! LOL! Rip off rip off rip off!
DeleteYeah it's really fucking embarrassing to admit having anything to do with Amway let alone be seen with their shitty overpriced products in your house.
Recently my boyfriend has gotten sucked into Amway world wide dream builders. Honestly it comes off as a cult to me and man they have him so sucked in. It's sad. He says I'm overreacting. How do I wake him up? I'm trying to be supportive but it's hard when i don't believe in it. We have 1 child together. No negative feedback.
ReplyDeleteHi Mommfaprinc3. Sorry to hear about your boyfriend.
DeleteYes Amway is a cult. And WWDB World Wide Destructive Bastards is the worst and most abusive of their cult sects. People in Amway are the most nasty evil vicious motherfuckers you'll ever meet in your life. Oh sure they'll be nice to you at first when they're in the love bombing stage. Love bombing is a common cult tactic and probably what roped your boyfriend in.
You can be pretty sure the fucking assholes in his Amway upline are "counseling" him to leave you because nothing gives them more happiness than destroying other people's lives. Like I said we don't call them World Wide Destructive Bastards for nothing.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do but wait him out. How willing you are to do that depends on only you. Sounds like you're in a committed relationship. Most Ambots quit Amway after a few months when they realize they got scammed and the only way they can make money is by scamming others. 95% of participants quit Amway within 2 years so the odds are on your side whether you're willing to wait him out. Amway is a system designed for failure. Only a tiny fraction of less than 1% of all participants make money. Like most pyramid schemes the only people who make money are those that got into the scam early enough.
He'll claim that he's doing Amway to make a better life for his family. But he'll turn into a nasty sneering insulting Ambot and will be really cruel to you and accuse you of being a negative unchristian dreamstealer. Quoting the assholes in his Amway upline of course because that's what Ambots do. Anyone who has an opposing viewpoint to their beloved Amway cult leaders will be on the receiving end of abuse.
If you haven't already done so, download a free ebook called Merchants of Deception. There's a link on the right side of this page under more information about Amway. It'll give you a better understanding of ScAmway. Here's a man who has 1000 people in his downline and only makes about $30,000 a year so the lies about the promised income just aren't there. Take a look at some of the videos and articles we've collected.
The stuff you don't want to hear is you need to protect yourself in case it turns out he's going to be a lifer in Amway. If you have any joint credit cards, get your name off. Failing that, contact the credit card and request the card be frozen for a few months while you pay it down. Report it stolen. Whatever you have to do because your boyfriend is going to max out all credit cards to show his love and devotion to the Great Amway God. Don't enable him. Don't give him money to spend on Amway shit.
Likewise if you have any joint bank accounts. He's going to drain them to tithe the Great Amway God.
He's going to hit rock bottom before he quits Amway. That means he's run out of money and can't afford to be inside this expensive buying club any longer. You don't need him dragging you down too.
And by the way there's a big Amway function coming up in October called FED - Free Enterprise Days. Attendance is mandatory for all "serious business builders". It's held in Portland and in Denver. If you don't live near one of those cities he's going to drop at least $1000 to buy a ticket, transportation to get there and hotel and food.
Good luck to you. I really can't stress enough that you need to do whatever you can to protect your assets and credit rating and take care of your child. Let us know what's happening.
Has anyone noticed that heavy-duty Amway involvement is very much like an addiction to drugs or alcohol? And to get out if it, the addict generally has to "hit bottom," and have nowhere else to go.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - Amway is just like an addiction. It's an expensive habit and destroys many lives.
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