Were you ever told you COULD NOT date/marry someone who is NOT a jw ???

run dont walk

i was told this a lot growing up, anyone have similar experiences, either from family or elders ???

i remember telling my mom, well you didin't marry a jw and got married in a catholic church, of course that was different !!!

liquidsky

Yep,

My parents made it very clear to me that I was not to date date or marry anyone who wasn't a JW. Funny thing is, I did. Boy were they mad.

Of course, and shortly after I left I did begin to date someone who wasnt a witness, who I "fell in love with". They tried to bring me up on another JC meeting about it, but I explained that I was no longer part of teh congreagtion and dating and marrying and unbeliever is just a principle, not a law by the way. So you cannot be DFd for it unless you are "immoral"

blondie

RDW, was your mom a JW when she did this? That would be something.

In my mother's generation, a lot of sisters married non-JWs because of the lack of single brothers. A sister in my age group did that in her 20's and was marked for years as the "sister who deliberately married out of the truth." Her husband eventually became a JW, an elder even, but she was/is still branded as the rebellious sister.

I married a non-JW myself.

Blondie

Dan-O

Absolutely. In fact, my Dad wouldn't speak to me for about a year because I married a Catholic & I had stopped attending meetings.

Nosferatu

Yes. After my ex left me, my mother told me, "You can only find a good wife in the troof! (Ex) didn't have a very good upbringing, and her parents have separated." I came back with "Just because a woman is in the troof, it doesn't mean that her parents are still together, and she had a good upbringing. Her parents may not have been JWs". Mother tried to come back with "But she'll know bible principles" and I came back with "It doesn't matter, everyone's upbringing has an effect on them". I pretty much won the arguement.