Those people held power over my life for close to 50 years.
They have none now, as I refuse to give them any. My parents are both dead, and my only sister already treats me and my whole family like crap. My husband knows where I stand and it worries him but he hasn't returned to meetings either (and hid and made me answer the door when someone came by with the new tract.)
However, they have never made any attempt to bring me in. I am not d'fed, I have not written a letter of disassociation. Don't know why, as I am an elected officer in a labor union and in a patriotic organization. My daughter took blood on my urging (it saved her life). Lots of people know me in those contexts. But the elders haven't called me in. Strange.
If they did -- Hell no, I wouldn't go!
I have nothing to say to them.
NanaR