Welcome to JWD, dedpoet!
My shunning came in 1975 right after I married a good witness man on track to becoming an MS. The congregation he went to - that I moved into - had people in it I considered friends that I grew up with at local assemblies, and elders who were supposedly friends of my dad.
The problem was, I married into a "weak" albeit over active JW family, and I was treated as if I married a worldly person! To say the least, their love pushed me out of JW-dom. Thank Cawed!
(BTW - my Armageddon did start in 1975 - June 7th - when I married "him". It ended in 1982 when I divorced "him")