Tomorrow, or when ever you read this, June 6th, my JW daughter gets married.
I will not be going.
I have thought about it since hearing she was getting married. But I somehow cannot bring myself to go. She has had no contact with me since 2001, and I mean no contact, spoken to, letter or otherwise. Not even an invite to the wedding, except through a third party. Which was, I can attend if I sit at the back and be discreet, and watch an Elder give her away, also not invited to the reception.
My other children, three who are non-JWs, and two who are also disassociated JWs, I have left to make up their own minds.
The three non-JWs are going to the wedding, but not the reception.
One of the DA'd ones, a daughter is going to the wedding, same as me, sit at back. She is going with her male partner. Not invited to reception. Also she is not allowed to go back to her mothers home, before or after.
My eldest son, also DA'd, is not going, he invited his JW mother and two JW sisters, to his wedding three years ago.
Which was being held in a church. They did not attend.
I am not feeling down about it all, only in the sense that its sad that so called "Christians" behave in such a way.
To me its just another example of the way JWs think and behave.
Also the hypocrisy they show, in light of what one of their magazines reently says:
"The Bible assures us that God wants us to "really find him". Since our Creator wants us to search for truth, it cannot be wrong to act on the evidence we find - even if that means changing our religion." "God allows each person the freedom to choose how he or she will respond.
No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family." I know many other ex-JWs have had worse treatment than mine.
Many have found out about their brothers, sisters, even mothers or fathers (remarriage), months after the weddings have taken place. Often by accident when someone has made some remark about it.
I have even heard about ex-JWs learning about their mother or fathers death, from some non-JW, who said they were sorry to hear about the death. This usually weeks afterwards as well.
I will use this occasion, when ever people ask me about JWs and their beliefs.