crono782
Premium Member
Some years back I seriously dated a girl for about 4 years whose family was JW. Her and her parents were non-practicing, but kept up appearances for family sake. Her father was a past minister (or paster, whatever they are called in JW) and always told me that they had to keep up appearanes because if their family found out, they would straight up disown them, never to speak to them again. I'm guessing their family was more hardcore into it considering I had a good buddy of mine marry a girl whose family WAS practicing JW and they didn't have a problem w/ her marrying outside the religion. I guess it all depends on the family, but the gist I got is that JWs are taught to completely break off ties w/ family that leaves. Scary...