Shunning shunners

by LovesDubs 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • LovesDubs
    LovesDubs

    Just when I thought my family couldnt be more discordant and dysfunctional because of the JWs, we now have the element of some of the nonJWs getting sick of the JWs who are shunning the exJWs and the nonJWs are now shunning the JWs for shunning! Jeeeeez louise. :(

    My husband of 19 years is a JW, one of his sisters is a JW as is her husband and all of her kids, and so one mentally challenged sister also baptized. (That sister lives at home with her mother, my mother in law and her Elder 2nd husband) On the other hand there is an older brother, a middle sister and a youngest brother who escaped the JWs without having to be baptized. All of them adults now. I left the JWs in 1997 after 13 years and my kids are not nor will ever be, JWs. But now my mother in law who was a JW for 25 years and brought all of her kids to the hall as she should and watched three of them get baptized, has now LEFT the JWs for good (she DAd in 99, went BACK in 02 and DAd again in 05....she found out you cant go back) and now my husband and his JW sister and her whole family are SHUNNING THEIR MOTHER! And the sister shuns ME of course but Im used to that. Now the oldest BROTHER who was never a JW found out his siblings are shunning their own mother and has categoricallly stated that he has HAD it with this facockta cult and is shunning MY JW HUSBAND AND HIS JW SISTER! So basically, nobody in this family is talking to anybody else much. We dont have ANY family gatherings. My kids cant see their own cousins, my mother in law cant see her own kids or grandkids and we owe it ALLLL to the LOOOOOVE of JEHOOOOOVER.

    Anybody else seeing this going on??

    Fed UP in Florida

  • Scully
    Scully

    Any bets on the JWs who are being shunned by non-JWs are claiming that they're being Persecuted™?

  • Warlock
    Warlock

    Your situation pretty much "takes the cake".

    Warlock

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    And they call the shunning practice an act of love.....

    I haven't heard of anything as complex as your situation before.

  • itsallgoodnow
    itsallgoodnow
    So basically, nobody in this family is talking to anybody else much. We dont have ANY family gatherings. My kids cant see their own cousins, my mother in law cant see her own kids or grandkids and we owe it ALLLL to the LOOOOOVE of JEHOOOOOVER.

    Anybody else seeing this going on??

    exactly what goes on in many families. When this happens, I have to wonder if people are doing what they want to do anyway, and the religion provides a perfect excuse for it?

  • greendawn
    greendawn

    What a mess they have created in your family, and they try as usually to justify it biblically as an act of love, the JWs can't see what sort of a lie they are living in, the WTS is the incarnation of an enormous lie.

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