Ladt night I was talking to a coworker who's sister is a witness in my old hall, and I needed some asprin after listening to this.
How can this be tolerated by people who believe that they alone speak the truth ?
A young couple ( early 30's) had two children, and they adopted another boy from the inner city, so they have three boys under the age of 13.
The father is a construction worker, and Mom works pt doing various jobs.
As a babysitter they use the respected teenaged son of a very prominent elder. Well, the parents breakup. Mom was having an affair with the sitter, and she left her family to move in with the boy. Parents got an official divorce, and Mom married the boy after about a year together.
The Father remarried, to a sister who has some personality problems and he bought another house.
Meanwhile after two years, the Mom and her teenaged husband move to a neighboring hall, and apply to be reinstated together. That process took about a year and a half, but they both are now happily back in the religion.
I would see her in the store once in a while and would talk to her with no problem since we were both no longer witnesses. But since she is back, whenever I or my wife run into her and her husband while shopping we get the most grand shunning imaginable.
Sitting bac and looking at the whole situation, it is just so mentally insane to me seeing how three families were torn apart, and by playing the system with appearances and sympathy, now everyone is back.
By the way, the original Dad who got remarried walks around when I see him like someone has cut him in two. I really feel for him, but how does he manage to attend the same hall with his new looney wife, and watch his old wife smiling, and having a wonderful time with the boytoy who is spending alot of time with the children?
and people wonder why witnesses are depressed,