Having said that, if you have met them, I assume they have accepted the fact that their son is dating a "pagan, worldly person" which would suggest they may be pretty liberal JWs.
Like I said, I've met his immediate family - parents, two brothers and one of his sisters (his other sister lives out-of-state and wasn't around when I was), and his niece and two nephews - and I must say, they were very warm and welcoming and all of that. There was no awkwardness, and my boyfriend keeps telling me that his family really likes me. I steered away from conversation about holidays/birthdays while I was there, but his mom actually asked me about my birthday and things like that, I was a little bit startled by that.
I've made it crystal-clear to my boyfriend that I'll never EVER convert and become a JW, and he understands that, he's never tried to ask me to do that, but I don't know what his family knows regarding that. I do know that his out-of-state sister is married to a non-JW for the second time, and there was no mention of him converting, he just gave up all of the holidays for her. My boyfriend also knows that I'll never give up my holidays, but again, I don't know if his family knows this.
I would certainly call his immediate family "liberal JWs", they're pretty open about most things, don't go out in field service, don't go to meetings, don't mind us non-JWs, they just don't celebrate any holidays and they turn their noses up at the concept of blood transfusions (they all know that I'm a blood donor, too, by the way), it's the rest of his family that I'm scared of. I don't know if they're all laid-back and liberal or if there are a few staunch JWs in there somewhere.
I never thought I could be so afraid of a group of people, but seriously, a large gathering of JWs frightens the **** out of me!! Sure, I'll avoid talking religion with them, that's a given, but someone's bound to ask if I'm a JW or not, then what?? And making other plans for that particular event is out of the question - his family does this EVERY year, the plans have already been laid out and they're all expecting me to be there. And besides, if I wanted him to come to a family gathering with me, I'm sure he'd go and just deal with my Anglican family (everyone in my family is Anglican, both sides), so what kind of girlfriend would I be if I said, "Nope, no way am I spending a few days with a bunch of Witnesses, that freaks me out"??
-Becka :)