I have an aunt who is 56 years old and has never been married nor has she ever had any children. She has been a JW all her life and she even turned down a scholarship to Columbia University to Special Pioneer where the need was great. She has had medical problems recently and cannot pioneer any more. Unfortunatey, pioneering was her whole life and now she is alone and without a mate or children.
What she wants now more than anything is to get married. She is "throwing herself" at one of the elders in her congregation. She invites him over for dinner every Sunday after the meeting she buys him presents to show "appreciate for all the hard work he does in the congregation". She always seems to have a problem in her apartment that he must come look at. Its absolutely embarrassing. He is 42 years old to her 56. She does not care. She just wants a husband and she has set her sights on him. I wish her luck. He would have to be an idiot not to realize what she is doing, but he acts as if he does not know.
Its hard for ever younger sisters to find a mate in the JW's and at her age is doubly hard. I can't help wishing that she had not given her whole life to the JW's and made some life for herself when she was younger. I look at her now and see another casualty of WT rules and regulations, because she always said that she was saving marriage and children until After Armegeddon.