@Ready now, I really don’t understand how begging is intellectual. I am an adult who went otd a while back. No amount of begging, crying or pleading will make me change my mind. Note I wrote mind and not emotions.
And to clear up some other misconceptions: I was never abused and was raised in a loving home. I couldn’t have asked for better parents. The people who leave Judaism for emotional reasons tend to be those who were abused.
In addition, some of you seem to be of the opinion that people go off the derech to party.
Regarding rebdoniel’s comment: individuals who go otd are not immoral. You said they get lost in alcoholism and yet I’d venture to say that I drink less alcohol than you do. And I’ve never tried drugs. And neither am I promiscuous. Maybe those who were abused feel the need to bury their pain with so called pleasures, but to make blanket statements like that is childish and naive.