George Nevrodis Testimony

People usually find my background to be very interesting. I was born to Greek parents, but I never lived in Greece. I was born in the continent of Africa in a country called Congo. My father worked for the United Nations so we did a lot of traveling at a young age. We then moved to Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, and eventually the United States.

I was 8 years old when I came to the United States. Prior to coming to the USA, I was a very good student. We moved to New York, and it was difficult for me. I remember going to school and not being happy with my environment. But I had no choice, I had to learn.

My father was a strict person growing up. He loved us very much although he would never show it. It was not affectionate love, or verbal communication love. It was love by deeds. He displayed it in offering us gifts whenever we wanted them. He was a typical old fashioned person who was set in his ways. My father was very successful with his career. He had great admirers for the quality work that he did at the United Nations. I also was very proud of his career accomplishments. As I grew up and became an adult, my relationship improved with him. It was never perfect but I dealt with what I had. At the age of 21 I also realized that I could not live my life blaming my father. I used to use that as my excuse prior to the age of 21.

My mother was the person that gave love, and would listen and talk to me. She was the pillow that I could rest my head on when things got stressful. Thank god for her. I love my mother so much. She is the dearest thing I have in this world, just like my wife and 2 kids. My mother was a stay home mom, and many people would criticize that in today's selfish world, but she sacrificed herself for her husband and kids completely. She suffered because she was home all the time. She would get criticism from my father, sister and me often. We felt at times that she was weak and not courageous especially in her relationship with my father. She handled a lot of stress and judgment from us all. None of us would honor her sacrifice. Thankfully, I have learned to honor her now, and today I have the greatest relationship with my mom.

When arriving in the USA my grades became poor, and I lost focus on my studies because my environment became more of my challenge. I was always very shy, and never adapted to the mentality of the USA. This continued all the way to the age of 21 years. My father one day told me that he was going to move to Greece, and he wanted me to go with him. As much as I did not want to lose my parents, I could not change everything again. I needed stability, and I decided to stay in the USA as my parents departed. At this time, I also realized that I had to complete my schooling and start working if I wanted to stay in the USA.

At the time I remember having so much stress about my future. I felt insecure also about myself because I was also very shy. I had a psychologist help me for about 2 years. She was great, and really allowed me to work through my issues at the time when there was nobody else that could help me. Her name was Irena Bramos, and she really saved my life at the time because of the stress I was experiencing. My stress came from being lonely, but Irena helped me to start expressing myself. It was very liberating at the time. I could tell people how I felt, and it would help me handle my stress.

At this time in my life, having found my new strength in speaking my mind, I started to explore relationships, and to my surprise I was a good communicator. People liked my company because I was a nice guy, but I needed something more. I needed more attention, so my communication started to be in a form of lies.

This became my addiction. Lying all the time. I could get people to believe anything, and at the same time I was getting the attention I needed. Later in my career I also became a salesperson which was fitting to my compulsive lying. I won awards, and honors for being the best salesperson out of 2000 employees. In reality the awards I won reminded me of what a crafty and professional liar I was.

My lying stemmed from the inability of being able to accept myself for what I was. I was always judging, and punishing myself. I had to be more then what I was, bigger, and always better. For example, if I received a grade of 90 from an examination at school, and somebody asked me what my grade was, I would say 95. 90 was a good grade, but for some reason I was never satisfied with what I had. It had to be more.

I had learned to love the passion for reading at the age of 21, and I would devour an average of 3 books per week. Most books focused on Self Help, New Age, Metaphysics, and Philosophy. I was looking for meaning in my life and the books helped me. It also helped me with the fact that I always felt lonely. I gained so much knowledge from these books, and I became powerful. But looking back now, I was actually more of a powerful liar! My ego was so high. I was smart, but I did not have any guidance on how to use it with any integrity.

The next 10 years was filled with a career working at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. I had great accomplishments both in the AIDS, and Cancer field.

My lying skills during this time period became even better. I was completely addicted and helpless when it came to lying. I believed so much in my lies, that the stories I would create started becoming my reality.

At this time, I also became a sex addict. My mind was filled with the women I would see. Always fantasizing about women, and with the advent of the internet pornography I was hooked.

I got married at the age of 28 to my wife Sunilda Vasquez. She reminded me of my mother at the time. She offered me so much love, and honored me as her mate. Getting married was almost like a "Start Again" button. A fresh start I said to myself at the time. No more lying, and since I had a wife to make love to, then no more pornography. It lasted for a couple of weeks, but my character was already destroyed by my previous habits of Lying and Sex Addiction. So I started my old habits again.

Even though I was married, I would fantasize other women at times. Not as bad as prior to my marriage, but bad enough to destroy the moral fabric and the sanctity of my marriage. The lying was also mixed in to my marriage. I would lie less, but none the less, I was still lying from time to time.

My wife and I then decided to have our first child Theodore Nevrodis in 1997. I was 32 years old. This now became the most difficult time in my entire life. My wife had her son, and I felt completely neglected. My son wanted my wife only, and my wife only wanted her son. At that time I felt like I was just thrown to the streets. I was feeling so lonely as I tried not to show it and be a strong person. But this started to really destroy me from the inside. I felt stuck in a place that I did not want to be in.

Being that I became even more lonely in my life, I resorted to lying and sex addiction like never before. It became so bad that my body started to show it. I was having nervous break downs, and crying fits in private. I had gained the most weight in my life during this time. I suffered from memory loss. I was feeling very insecure. I also then started suffering from a medical condition called "Neuropathy". My feet and stomach were completely numb. I could not feel my own feet on many days. I would walk, and not feel the street pavement, but I would use my body balance to shift the weight in my feet. My body was just shutting down, and would continue to fall apart every year.

I lost my job in shortly after because I had such weakness. My body was failing me and I did not now why. Loosing my job was very hard for me. What made matters worse was when my wife lost her job also shortly after, and now we had a financial crisis in our hands. We then reached a financial crisis that became almost unbearable. It a was then when my wifes family asked us to come and stay with them temporarily in the Dominican Republic until we could get stable again.

My wife and kids went to the Dominican Republic as I was going back and forth to find work to come back to the USA. It was hard as I was battling my fatigue in my body and the loneliness of being away from my family. Thankfully I was able to stay for free at my friends house and family as I would go back and forth to the Island just to visit my wife and kids.

One day on my visit to the Dominican Republic, I started to feel lonely again. I did not speak Spanish, and did not know my way around. I would depend on my wife, her family and my friends for company. My wife tried her best to keep me happy, but I needed to feel independent, and capable of providing to my family. At times I would feel that I was Mr. Mom driving my wife and kids around town, and that was it. So the loneliness set in again, and the bad habits would surface again, as my energy level in my body would start to falter. I was now determined to go back to the USA and find a job to bring my family back to the USA.

I went to the USA to look for a job again, and it was June or July of 2004. I was in bed reading the bible, and a friend's voice came to mind. It said to me "what do you have to loose? Is your life so perfect? Is your ego so overwhelmingly strong that you can not ask for help?" At that moment I went down to my knees, and I said, "Ok Jesus, I will give you a chance to help me", and at the moment I said it sincerely (I MEANT IT!), something happened. My body started to vibrate, and I started sweating. I felt him! My body started to vibrate even stronger to the point that I could not hold myself up. My body just crumbled to the side of the bed, and the sweating and trembling did not stop for 45 minutes. It was so incredible! A big weight came out of my body. Something just released, and after 45 minutes I was in shock of my new experience. I got into bed and started reading the bible with a passion. I knew that I had experienced something divine that had changed my life completely. That is when my LIFE started! One month later back in the Dominican Republic, I was told that I probably had the "Holy Spirit" come into my life.

What has happened since that day has been a complete transformation. I'm not as lonely in life, and truly have purpose and more passion for life. I have stopped lying almost completely. My addiction to lust has disappeared, and I don't go to the internet for pornography anymore. My relationship with my kids has improved, my relationship with my wife has improved, and my overall relationships with friends and family are more sincere and loving. I should also say that my Neuropathy is gone in my feat & stomach. I only get a tinge of Neuropathy on my right side of my stomach when I do something I know is wrong. Almost like a reminder from god to remind me to stay focused in his word. My only battle is with fatigue.

Today is 11/11/2005 and I can say that I have truly been saved by the grace of god. My aspiration today is to share the word with my wife, kids, and to all my brothers and sisters that suffer from the loneliness that comes into our lives when the spirit of god is not embraced. Jesus teaches, and god listens with a loving heart. I hope this testimony encourages you to turn to him. After all, we were created for him, and he is just waiting for us to come back to him with open arms.

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